The Death Artist : A Novel of Suspense Author: Jonathan Santlofer
	Book Information Publisher: William Morrow Book Type: Hardcover Rating: 3 ISBN-13: 9780060004415 - ISBN-10: 006000441X Publication Date: 8/2002 Pages: 352

It's been more than a decade since Kate McKinnon traded her NYPD sheild for a Ph.D. in art history, exchanged a row house in Queens for a penthouse overlooking Central Park, and left homicide for PBS, hosting a popular art series based on her bestselling book. But when a string of exquisitely executed murders begins plaguing the New York art scene, Kate finds herself drawn back into the dark world of her past.
It's devestating enough that one of the victims was her protegee. Then the killer begins a chilling communication with Kate, sending her arcane messages only she can decipher. As the clues become more twisted and the killings increasingly vicious, Kate knows she has little time to make the most important find of her career--the death artist--before she becomes the ultimate prize in his lethal collection.
Here is a brilliant, edgy, and intimate insider's tour of the art world that probes the complex relationships between success and failure, death and desire.