Jesse Kellerman is the author of Potboiler, The Executor, The Genius, Trouble, Sunstroke. and with Jonathan Kellerman, The Golem of Hollywood. His books and plays have won several awards and an Edgar Award nomination. He lives in California.
“A suspense story has to take over your mind, leaving you
disoriented when you look up at the end. Jesse Kellerman makes this
act of self-hypnosis easy.”—The New York Times
“GRIPPING.”—Chicago Sun Times
“SUPERB.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“BRILLIANT.”—Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
“It’s a mystery, but like the best crime fiction, it is much
more.”—Booklist
Greed gets Ethan Muller, a 33-year-old Manhattan art dealer, into hot water in Kellerman's superb third--stand-alone thriller (after Trouble). When reclusive artist Victor Cracke disappears, Muller winds up taking possession of the boxes and boxes of intense, disturbing drawings that Cracke left behind in his shabby Queens apartment. A favorable New York Times article helps fuel lucrative sales at an exhibit of Cracke's drawings at Muller's Chelsea gallery. Soon, though, Muller starts to receive cryptic, vaguely threatening letters. He also hears from a retired NYPD detective, Lee McGrath, who recognizes the face of one of the boys in a Cracke drawing as belonging to the victim of a 40-year-old unsolved murder.--That revelation turns Muller into an amateur detective as he attempts to discover how the dead boy's image-along with those of several other victims-made its way into the pictures.--Kellerman has a gift for creating compelling characters as well as for crafting an ingenious plot that grabs the reader and refuses to let go. Author tour. (Apr.) Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
"A suspense story has to take over your mind, leaving you
disoriented when you look up at the end. Jesse Kellerman makes this
act of self-hypnosis easy."-The New York Times
"GRIPPING."-Chicago Sun Times
"SUPERB."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"BRILLIANT."-Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
"It's a mystery, but like the best crime fiction, it is much
more."-Booklist
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