The Art of Dying

About the Book

Christian painter Hilary Jackson lives a life of contentment, spiritually at peace and doing the work she loves—until the day she plays Good Samaritan to a dangerously handsome Englishman with no name, no identification and no memory beyond the hazy belief that he has killed Scotland Yard art expert, Sir Alexander Napier.

Napier was unofficially investigating the theft of a Rembrandt by a ring of international art thieves possibly centered in the seaside art colony of Steeple Hill.  In fact, one of Sir Napier's main suspects was a young painter by the name of…Hilary Jackson.

Grainger Pauley, Hilary's rep, advises her to turn "Alan" into the police—or he will.  Twin sisters Serena and Selena are clearly keeping secrets.  Bad boy painter Bryan Kinsale hints that he knows something about the missing Rembrandt.  Was Napier a bad cop?  Is Alan an art thief and murderer?  Why are the people closest to Hilary suddenly acting suspiciously?  

Guided only by Alan's confused memories and dreams, the two try to retrace his footsteps, realizing too late that if Alan did not kill Napier, someone else did—someone for whom the act of murder is becoming an art…

About the Author

Diana Killian is the penname of a Los Angeles-based writer and reviewer.