A Cold Heart
Jonathan KellermanJuliet Kipper, a gifted painter, is strangled in the LA gallery where
her first solo show has opened to critical acclaim, and Milo Sturgis
takes on the murder investigation as a favour to an old friend. He
consults Alex Delaware, who, researching parallels with other deaths,
looks for artists killed when on the verge of a breakthrough or
comeback. And he finds two others. A few weeks earlier, blues player
Edgar Michael 'Baby Boy' Lee was stabbed just after finishing his set at
The Snakepit. The remains of China Maranga, a punk singer, were found
by the Hollywood sign a month after her disappearance three years ago.
And Alex discovers both were clients of Robin Castagna, his ex-lover.
The investigation points to a gruesome, sadistic pattern of death,
taking Milo and Alex into the dark side of the art world, and Robin into
terrible danger.