Into The Dark: A Tom Deaton Novel (The Tom Deaton)

An engaging hard-boiled mystery. The most prominent painter in southern California is found hanging in his Laguna Canyon studio. The Laguna Beach police initially think suicide; his sister says murder and works with Detective Tom Deaton to find her brothers killer. Together they follow a trail of death that takes them from southern California to France England and finally to a darkened cave that holds unspeakable secrets. The most ambitious yet of Richard B. Schwartzs novels Into the Dark is a tale of love and death of power greed and perversity. Its subject is art art whose price is written in blood.