An Exquisite Corpse

Name: An Exquisite Corpse
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Helen A. Harrison
ISBN: 9781666554397

Author: Helen A. Harrison

Series: Art of Murder Mysteries #1

Narrator: Pete Cross

Unabridged: 6 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 07/07/2020

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical Fiction, Women Sleuths

Synopsis

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 parlor games turn deadly? Or is there something even more sinister afoot?

About Pete Cross

Pete Cross is an award-winning audiobook narrator and engineer who earned his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. A multiple Earphones Awards winner and Audie finalist, he was nominated for a SOVAS award for his narration of Moby Dick and received the 2022 Audie Award for Ryan La Sala’s Be Dazzled and the 2023 Odyssey Award for Ryan La Sala’s The Honeys.

About Helen A. Harrison

Helen A. Harrison is the author of the Art of Murder Mysteries as well as numerous nonfiction publications, including Hamptons Bohemia: Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach, which she co-authored. A former visual-arts commentator for NPR and art reviewer for The New York Times, she is the director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. She and her husband, artist Roy Nicholson, live in Sag Harbor, New York. For more information, visit www.helenharrison.net.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kim

An Exquisite Corpse by Helen A. Harrison is a fantastic historical mystery with a touch of noir that does a wonderful job incorporating the real life people and feel of the Surrealist movement in New York during WWII. The book starts with an explanation of an exquisite corpse and then continues to i......more

Goodreads review by Jim

When I attended college in the early 1960s, I majored in history and minored in art history/appreciation (no drawing classes). When I saw a mention of AN EXQUISITE CORPSE by art historian HELEN A. HARRISON, I was hoping I would like it. In a word, it was awesome. The story takes place in New York Cit......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie

An Exquisite Corpse is the first in a new series; Art of Murder Mysteries. Detailed and full of description, An Exquisite Corpse gives you a glimpse of the art world in New York City during World War Two. A large cast of characters makes the story fact paced and well developed. But you have to pay a......more