Feint of Art
An Annie Kincaid Mystery
by Hailey Lind
Annie Kincaid was hailed as a child prodigy when she painted a flawless Mona Lisa at age
ten. This same talent, inherited from her forger grandfather, just got her into trouble
a few years later, and now at thirty-one she is determined to run her faux finishing business
and stay out of trouble. But it looks as though trouble has found her, for when she identifies
the Brock Museum's "priceless" Caravaggio as a fake and a janitor gets murdered things
start to look dodgy. Throw in a new landlord who wants to raise her rent, a mysterious PI
and a vanishing ex-boyfriend, and things get even dodgier...
If you like cozies with ditzy, trouble-prone heroines then this ought to please. Annie
teeters through this tale, trying to stay on the straight-and-narrow despite her grandfather
and dubious contacts galore. She tells the story in her own words, which has the effect of
making the book three times as long as it could be and slowing down the pace a whole lot, something
this particular book could do without. This is one of those whodunits that rely on charm
and zaniness rather than buckets of suspense and a tortuous plot and as such it could stand
some editing. San Francisco makes for a good backdrop, and is evidently a place the writers
know well and the glimpses into the world of faux finishing and art fraud are interesting. |
The Book |
Signet Mystery (Penguin Group) |
January 2006 |
Paperback |
04251216997 |
Mystery [Contemporary, San Francisco] |
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The Reviewer |
Rachel A Hyde |
Reviewed 2006 |
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