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Set in the art world, this latest psychological thriller by suspense veteran Lindsey (Mercy; Color of Night) is an alternately entertaining and frustrating tale of a sculptor's entanglement in revenge and murder. Ross Marteau makes a handsome living sculpting female nudes from glamorous live models. After a bad breakup in Paris, he returns home to San Rafael a chic, artsy enclave in the Texas hill country for his next commission. Upon his arrival, exotically beautiful newcomer Cleste Lacan seeks him out and persuades him to sculpt her sister, Leda. Leda is striking in a photograph Cleste shows Ross, but Leda, Cleste hints, is not an ordinary beauty she will be a unique artistic challenge. As Ross soon discovers, Leda is a hunchback, stunning from some angles and startling from others. As Ross begins sketching her daily, and he and Cleste become romantically involved, he glimpses details of the sordid arrangement that binds the sisters to each other and to Cleste's abusive husband. There is an eerie tension among Ross, Cleste and Leda, which heightens when a murder disturbs the calm of San Rafael. Lindsey conceives an intriguing scenario and wrestles his story through unexpected turns. At time his efforts to conceal surprises make the writing, and especially the dialogue, irritatingly vague, and Ross becomes less sympathetic as time after time he fails to ask obvious questions when subjected to the sisters' cryptic babbling. But as the end approaches, Lindsey's obfuscation pays off, and a few clever twists are guaranteed to throw readers for a delicious loop. National advertising. (May 8) Forecast: Lindsey is one of the most accomplished writers in the thriller field, but his tales, while solid, don't match his enormous talent; and this novel, with its offbeat subject and erudite approach, won't be a smash hit. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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An over-the-top thriller about a successful sculptor with feet of clay. The thing about Ross Marteau is that hes never cared enoughnot enough about art to take it seriously, not enough about the women in his life to commit to a long-term relationship. Easy success, easy love affairsyou could embroider it on a sampler as the Marteau motto. And then suddenly it all changes. On his return from a stay in Paris to his studio in San Rafael, Texas, Ross meets the lovely if enigmatic Céleste Lacan, who makes a disconcerting request of him. She wants him to sculpt her younger sister Leda. Its not that Leda isnt beautifulshe is, but not entirely beautiful. Shes a hunchback, and, for reasons that stem from her bitterness over this affliction, she wants to be sculpted nude. Its a commission Ross is not eager for, since he knows the work will cause controversy, something Ross has always avoided. He likes his models opulent, his patrons affluent, and his pursuit of happiness free of complication. But by this time, to his astonishment, hes in thrall to Céleste and can refuse her nothing. Which is too bad, because what she asks next enmeshes him in crime and constitutes for Ross a point of no return. Before that, however, there are startling revelations: Céleste is marriedto a wife-beater; and a third sister, Sylvie, now dead, was Rosss mistress 25 years ago. Helplessly, he begins to sense that the surface is illusory, that hes involved in something as devious as it is dangerous. And hes right: murder, blackmail, and, most excruciatingly, someones elaborate notion of revenge. Not the best from this usually reliable veteran (The Color of Night, 1999, etc.). Theres an unfortunate soap-opera feel here, undercutting the surprise end that seems to have shaped everything preceding it.