An Exquisite Corpse

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Murder is a work of art...

When the acclaimed Cuban painter Wifredo Lam turns up dead in his Greenwich Village studio, officers Juanita Diaz and Brian Fitzgerald of the NYPD, must investigate the crime. But what they find is much more gruesome than they ever could have imagined.

Suspicion soon falls on a tight-knit circle of Surrealist refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, and Diaz and Fitzgerald must traverse the city, from Chinatown's underworld to Spanish Harlem's gangland, to find the truth. Did one of the artists' bizarre parlour games turn deadly Or is there something even more sinister afoot

'Smart, witty, filled with so much history of the period, beautifully written, and suspenseful.' Jonathan Santlofer, author ofThe Death Artist

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"Harrison is at her best depicting the New York art world at a precarious time and its dependence on wealthy patrons for survival. That alone is worth the price of admission." - Publishers Weekly
"Harrison is at her best depicting the New York art world at a precarious time and its dependence on wealthy patrons for survival. That alone is worth the price of admission." - Publishers Weekly
"These are light, short-chapter mysteries, all plot with some wild characters." - Kingdom Books

Author Bio

HELEN A. HARRISON, a former New York Times art critic and NPR art commentator, is the director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton, New York. Her previous books include Hamptons Bohemia, and monographs on Larry Rivers and Jackson Pollock. She lives with her husband, the painter Roy Nicholson, New York.