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Still Lives

Maria Hummel (Goodreads Author)

3.34 · Rating details · 15,367 ratings · 1,076 reviews

Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women—the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others—and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is t ...more

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May 16, 2018 Maxwell rated it it was ok

Shelves: botm, i-own-it, 2018

This was a pretty disappointing read. The description made it sound like a book that was right up my alley. And while everything mentioned in the blurb does in fact happen in the book, it's not told in as thrilling of a way as you might expect. In fact, for a 275 page book, the first 100-150 pages or so are fairly unexciting. Things happen and you (sort of) get to know the characters, but it's not very engaging.

Another issue I had with this book was that I never felt like I was able to understan ...more

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Mar 31, 2018 Jeffrey Keeten rated it it was amazing

Shelves: artists, mysteries

”For the four years I’ve lived in Los Angeles, the Rocque Museum has been my workplace and my university, offering me a degree in contemporary art and the cosmopolitan life---brilliant as the blues in a Sam Francis painting, decadent as a twenty-four-karat cast of a cat testicle. Most days pass in a pleasurable blur of words and pictures. Most nights I hate to leave my little office, especially on April evenings like this, when I can look over my mess of proofs, out to the greening city, and ima ...more

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Jun 08, 2018 Larry H rated it liked it

3.5 stars.

The Rocque Museum was one of Los Angeles' hidden treasures—an art museum for art lovers and collectors more than for tourists. While this set the institution apart, this also took a toll on its finances. Everyone is desperate for a hit exhibition, including the founder's daughter, who is tired of bailing out the museum and the director, who is worried about job security.

They think they've found it in Still Lives , an exhibition by artist and provocateur Kim Lord. Lord painted self-por 3.5 stars.

The Rocque Museum was one of Los Angeles' hidden treasures—an art museum for art lovers and collectors more than for tourists. While this set the institution apart, this also took a toll on its finances. Everyone is desperate for a hit exhibition, including the founder's daughter, who is tired of bailing out the museum and the director, who is worried about job security.

They think they've found it in Still Lives , an exhibition by artist and provocateur Kim Lord. Lord painted self-portraits with her standing in for famous murder victims such as Nicole Brown Simpson, Kitty Genovese, Chandra Levy, and the Black Dahlia, in an effort to make a statement about how society and the media sensationalize violence against women. The pictures are chilling, eerie, and disturbing, and the elite of the art world are gathering at the Rocque to see the exhibition unveiled.

There's one issue though: Kim Lord doesn't show up for her own opening. Key museum staff receive texts that she'll be delayed a bit, but she never appears. And while her disappearance is helping boost the number of visitors, the longer she doesn't surface, the more concern grows, especially when some staff recount Lord's mentioning she felt she was being stalked in the museum.

Maggie Richter, a member of the museum's communications and PR office, wants to understand what happened to Kim, too, and it's not just because that would make her job easier. Maggie's ex-boyfriend, gallerist-on-the-rise Greg Shaw Ferguson, essentially dumped her for Kim, and it's not long before he stands accused of Kim's disappearance. Maggie wants to believe that the Greg she knew wouldn't be capable of anything nefarious, but she knows there are things he isn't telling her.

As Maggie searches for clues within Kim's own work, she begins to notice there is a lot more behind-the-scenes drama at the museum than she realized. Little by little, she starts to suspect others might have been responsible for Kim's disappearance, but she can't seem to make sense of their motivation. At the same time, she, too, becomes a suspect, given Kim's relationship with Shaw, but Maggie isn't sure what might happen—will she stand accused of a crime, or will she fall prey to the real perpetrator, who is determined to stop her progress?

"Find the who. Who gets hurt. Who gains. Whose life will never be the same."

This book is a fascinating look at the art world, the rise and fall of artists, the struggles of museums, and how collectors can change the flow of careers. At the same time, it's also a bit of a whodunit, one of those books in which an average, everyday person finds themselves immersed in trying to solve a crime despite having no real skills at doing so, and despite the fact they're putting themselves in danger.

The information that Maria Hummel provides gives a lot of insight into the former, and I like the way she describes the dynamics of the museum staff and the goings-on around the mounting of an exhibition. But as the book shifts full-time toward Maggie trying to figure out what happened to Kim and who was responsible, it loses its footing a bit. There is so much extraneous information thrown into the plot that I can't figure out what were supposed to be red herrings and what were just unresolved threads of the plot.

I like the way Hummel writes—this book has a breezy style, and the characters, while somewhat irritating, definitely got me invested in the story. While I enjoyed the book, I just wish the mystery part was executed a little cleaner, because it really had a lot of potential.

See all of my reviews at itseithersadnessoreuphoria.blogspot.com, or check out my list of the best books I read in 2017 at http://itseithersadnessoreuphoria.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-best-books-i-read-in-2017.html. ...more

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May 14, 2018 Diane S ☔ rated it really liked it

The glittering world of art can be at once insightful and nasty. Set in L. A at a prestigious gallery that is having money problems, a new show featuring the avant garde, often shocking Kim Lord. Her latest installations are paintings of women who were mudered in Los Angeles, including Nicole zBrown Simpson and the Black Dahlia. Lord uses her own face and body but the manner of death is prominently and sometimes graphically displayed. Maggie, a copy editor and proof reader for the museum, has ro ...more

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Oct 14, 2018 Paromjit rated it really liked it

Shelves: crime-fiction, art, mystery, netgalley

Maria Hummel immerses us in the art world of Los Angeles, a corrupt city of dreams and ambitions, mythic in its glamour and legendary in its violence in this Noir thriller. Kim Lord is returning to the contemporary art scene after 1o years away, with a controversial but arresting exhibition of still lives portraits of famous murders of women such as Nicole Brown Simpson, Chandra Levy and the Black Dahlia. Kim Lord herself portrays each murder victim, some see this as beyond good taste, part of t Maria Hummel immerses us in the art world of Los Angeles, a corrupt city of dreams and ambitions, mythic in its glamour and legendary in its violence in this Noir thriller. Kim Lord is returning to the contemporary art scene after 1o years away, with a controversial but arresting exhibition of still lives portraits of famous murders of women such as Nicole Brown Simpson, Chandra Levy and the Black Dahlia. Kim Lord herself portrays each murder victim, some see this as beyond good taste, part of the movement for the commodification and consumption of female homicide victims. The opening night at the struggling Rocque Museum is heaving with the rich and famous, art critics and the press, all desperate to meet the feted guest of honour, Kim Lord. As Kim fails to appear, there is a increasing sense of unease and palpable undercurrents, with speculation rife, is it a publicity stunt? Or has something far more sinister happened?

Maggie Richter is the museum editor, struggling to get over the break up of her relationship with Greg Shaw Ferguson, and carrying a haunting burden of the murder of a source that led to her giving up her fledgling career in journalism. Kim Lord's boyfriend was Greg, and he becomes the prime suspect for the police. Maggie has no reason to help Greg, but she is convinced he is innocent, driving her to look into the life of Kim Lord, those involved with the Rocque Museum, and the art world. An ambivalent Maggie looks for answers in Kim's self portraits as the dead women, looking for a stalker, observing varied off kilter behaviours as she searches for motives for killing the prominent artist. Her world becomes increasingly claustrophobic, worrying and paranoid as she delves into the world of the super collectors and the rise of the artificial artist, the rich and art dealers manipulating the art world for financial gain where the artist is irrelevant. Her life begins to disintegrate around her as she begins to get an inkling of the truth.

Maggie is a fascinating protagonist, for she is, of course, a suspect herself as the woman still in love with Greg, she has motive. She continues to try and find out what happened to Kim despite so many telling her to drop it, that it is too dangerous with a killer loose. However, Greg and the sense of unfinished business with the death of a source in her past will not let her give up, she remembers the advice of her journalist mentor which help to guide her present day investigation. The shady art world, with it's symbiotic relationship between the artist, dealer and collector is driven by money with most transactions happening behind closed doors. Hummel writes a chilling and compelling mystery amidst the background of the LA art world that is depicted with detail and authenticity. Maggie's a multi-faceted character, a bundle of contradictions, having to deal with her feelings for Greg, and find out who murdered Kim, a woman she has had antagonistic feelings towards. One of the highlights of the novel is Maggie's changing and deeper personal connection with Kim and her growing appreciation for her art. A great and gripping read. Many thanks to Quercus for an ARC. ...more

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Jun 09, 2018 Elyse Walters rated it really liked it · review of another edition

“Not every woman fantasizes about being a sex slave or starlet or murder victim! Some of us just want to get sucked into a good novel and grow our own tomatoes one day when we have more time”.

How might you feel if your ex boyfriend
opens up an Art Gallery.... offers you a dream job ...then begins shacking up with *Kim Lord*....whose ‘every’ painting,
“is so powerful it makes your eyes bleed”.
.....who also happens to be a ‘no show’
at her grand Galla art exhibition with over 300 guests expected? ...more

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Dec 30, 2018 Beata rated it liked it

Still Lives tells a story of Kim Lord, an artist who works in L.A. and who has a disturbing and provoking idea of presenting female murder victims in her works. She disappears, and Maggie Richter, a copy editior working for a modern art museum, embarks on a trail to discover the truth: is Kim's disappearance part of her artistic vision or is there a possibility that something terrible happened to her?
This thriller is rather slow-paced, however, well-written and there is no need for speed readin ...more

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May 19, 2018 Jenny rated it liked it

Still Lives takes the reader on a mystery set in the L.A. art world.A famous artist, Kim Lord, goes missing on the opening night of her exhibit, "Still Lives."The exhibit is controversial because the portraits are of famous women like the Black Dahlia, Nicole Brown Simpson and other murdered women.There is definitely a lot of buzz and talk around the exhibit. When no one can find Lord on opening night, Maggie Richter, one of the museums editors, decides to investigate for herself.Mystery, suspen ...more

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Jul 22, 2018 Victoria rated it really liked it

Make your life about the things and the people that matter to you, the ones worth saving. Keep them well and let the dead go. The dead already know their ending.

A literary mystery surrounding the disappearance of an enigmatic painter set in the world of museums and galleries drew me to this story, but it was the author’s writing that kept me reading. Hummel manages to infuse the narrative with a noir quality as she exposes the underbelly of Los Angeles along with some nefarious art world collect Make your life about the things and the people that matter to you, the ones worth saving. Keep them well and let the dead go. The dead already know their ending.

A literary mystery surrounding the disappearance of an enigmatic painter set in the world of museums and galleries drew me to this story, but it was the author’s writing that kept me reading. Hummel manages to infuse the narrative with a noir quality as she exposes the underbelly of Los Angeles along with some nefarious art world collectors.

I once saw a painted map of Los Angeles circa 1880…The dream of a city in a valley of paradise, flanked by the sea….Over a century later, immense, overcrowded and corrupted, that’s still the Los Angeles that people fall in love with….It’s also the city where monstrous appetites meet private hopes, again and again, and devour them. Where ambition is savaged and changed to devastation…’

Adding to the grit amidst the glamour is the artist’s latest work--provocative self portraits of famous murdered women--a castigation of the media’s salacious coverage and our obsession with these violent deaths. And it is in the descriptions of the paintings and the way the author makes you feel their vulnerability and, in turn, ours that lends a tension to the story while also making a point about our culture’s fascination with these victims.

In each of the paintings exists a dead woman, identified by her hair, her eye color, her clothes and gestures, and also, inexplicably, Kim Lord, wearing that death, the way shamans of old donned the masks and cloaks of spirits.

There is a large cast of characters all of which add to the intrigue and provide an inside look at the machinations of a museum and what it takes to put on an exhibit. Just as interesting to me was another of the author’s posits about super collectors and their influence on the art market.

Despite a ponderous first half and some misgivings about a novel that (maybe) had too much to say, I’m giving it four stars because I will always champion good writing and a satisfyingly complex plot.
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Jun 18, 2018 MaryBeth's Bookshelf rated it it was ok

Shelves: fiction

Kim Lord is a famous artist with a very controversial show about to open when she mysteriously disappears. Editor Maggie Richter finds herself sucked in to the scandal as she tries to figure out what happened to Kim, while struggling to reconcile with her own demons.

I had a lot of hope for this book - set in Los Angeles, art world, scandal....but, something just didn't click with me. I could not get into the story or the characters. I am clearly in the minority as this book is winning awards lik ...more

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May 20, 2018 Meredith B. (readingwithmere) rated it really liked it

4 Stars!

Thank you to Counterpoint Press for sending me a free finished copy of Still Lives!

This book's subject matter is unlike anything I've read before. It centers around the art community which frankly I don't have much knowledge of. Ultimately this book is a mystery about a missing person but the way the author wove in the Art community was very interesting.

Kim Lord is a famous artist and it's her opening night of a her new exhibit. She takes on a tough subject when it comes to her art: abus ...more

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May 01, 2018 Book of the Month added it

Why I Love it
by Sarah Bedwell

In the world of mystery novels, there’s an elephant in the room that no one’s talking about: society’s fascination with violence against women. Don’t get me wrong, I love this genre, but sometimes I find myself wanting a little more feminism to go with all the female victimhood. Luckily, I found this in Still Lives, a suspenseful, splashy story about fame, sex, and how our culture views women’s bodies.

Kim Lord is a prominent and provocative artist whose new show—a se ...more

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Jul 07, 2018 Caidyn (SEMI-HIATUS; BW Reviews; he/him/his) rated it did not like it

Shelves: mystery-horror-thriller, dnf, book-of-the-month

You can find all of my reviews here!

1/5 – DNF at pg. 234 (85%)

TW: mentions of graphic crimes against women and murder

Well, here we are. Another DNF review from me. And I was so sure that I would like this book!

The basic premise of this is that Kim Lord is an artist. She exploits people for her exhibits. This time, she exploits women who were murdered in horrible crimes. Nicole Brown Simpson, The Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, and many others. The night that her exhibit is supposed to open, she neve ...more

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May 17, 2018 Sarah rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, mystery, thriller

"Still Lives offers its readers a combination of entertainment and brilliance. It's at once profound and suspenseful, the ending had me gasping in surprise!. The book as a whole asks important questions about art and representation and how we, as a culture, objectify and endanger and victimize women.

Maria Hummel has written a remarkable, relevant, and necessary novel."—
Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibitio ...more

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Nov 01, 2018 Lou rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Still Lives is a refreshingly original take on the contemporary thriller set in glamorous Los Angeles. It focuses on the disappearance of controversial artist Kim Lord and uncovers some of the darkness hidden behind the scenes of the LA art world. There are plenty of surprises and I found myself completely immersed in the story and the wonderful setting. If you appreciate intriguing thrillers that are both chilling and disturbing, you will find much to enjoy here. The writing was easy to connect ...more

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Apr 13, 2018 Cindy Burnett rated it it was amazing

4.5 stars

Still Lives is a fascinating read set in Los Angeles that focuses on the disappearance of an up-and-coming artist right before the opening night of her exhibition. The book is significantly darker and more grim than I usually tolerate, but the originality of the plot and the subject matter kept me reading at a furious pace to find what was going to happen next.

Maggie Richter works as an editor at the Rocque Museum and has mixed feelings about Kim Lord’s exhibition, self-portraits of Lo ...more

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Jan 09, 2019 Umut Reviews rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I'm afraid I have to agree with a lot of reviews mentioning the same points that are missing in this book. I loved the cover and the premise. I found it very original, and still find the set up quite cool.
An artist who plans a controversial exhibit where she painted the well known women victims, who had terrible deaths. And the night of the exhibit, she doesn't show up. So, what happened to her?
I loved the gallery, art, artist dynamics. I thought the story would connect to this cool artist's pa ...more

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May 21, 2018 Jessica Sullivan rated it liked it

Shelves: 2018-read, mystery-thriller

“Never look for the what. Find the who. Who gets hurt. Who gains. Whose life will never be the same.”

I’ve seen some reviews lamenting that this isn’t the thrilling page-turner they expected, and that’s true, it isn’t. It’s more of a slow burn noir about the LA art world, with a missing woman at the center.

On the opening night of her new museum exhibition featuring self-portraits in which she depicts herself as famous murdered women, artist Kim Lord disappears.

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Jun 03, 2018 Pamela Glass rated it it was ok

This book has received some bewilderingly high reviews. I was surprised at how slowly this "thriller" moved. It wasn't a difficult read by any means, and as a person with interests in art and it's strange intersection with capitalism, as well as feminism and the incredibly high numbers of acts of violence against women, it seemed like a really promising premise. Sadly, I found reading it a chore.

Hummel goes into such intricate detail describing very famous murders and kidnappings, not just once, This book has received some bewilderingly high reviews. I was surprised at how slowly this "thriller" moved. It wasn't a difficult read by any means, and as a person with interests in art and it's strange intersection with capitalism, as well as feminism and the incredibly high numbers of acts of violence against women, it seemed like a really promising premise. Sadly, I found reading it a chore.

Hummel goes into such intricate detail describing very famous murders and kidnappings, not just once, but repeatedly. Which would be fine if it added to the discussion a great deal, but it felt that all that description was for sensationalism and then led to some overly simplified ideas: 1) society is preoccupied with violence against women and 2) it's really common. That is all. I think it's a pretty well-known fact that a lot of women are murdered and abused. I didn't really need a novel to tell me that in gory detail.

In Still Lives, we have the main character, Maggie, trying to suss out the disappearance of Kim Lord, an artist who has just studied ad-nauseum the lives of famously murdered women, and it seems neither of them thought to look into the violent parties. There is no discussion about WHY these heinous acts happened or WHO committed them. Merely that the statistics for violence against women are pretty awful. The gruesom details receive far more thought and discussion than the causes, perpetrators, or how to stop these things in future.

As I slogged through the denouement, I started skimming the drawn-out decompression of the main character. There are so many long descriptions of things that don't really relate all that much to the storyline. I like metaphor, especially if it's well mixed into the action, but I felt like I was slowly trudging through commentary on how great and seedy historic L.A. is, F Scott Fitzgerald's life, and Damien Hirst's career, starving for even a crumb of movent forward in the plot. It felt bloated and boring. And this book is only 275 pages.

I think Still Lives misses a lot of the deeper discussion that could and should be had about murdered women in the media. Bringing awareness to such a topic is always a positive, but if we aren't going to actually delve into what society is doing with this information, and what it means about us as a whole that we've become so desensitized it, then what's the point? Just shock value? I suppose one could argue that such shock value in a book about the obsession of exactly such shock is deeply self-reflexive, but the story simply didn't strike me as being that layered. Or if it was, it wasn't well executed.

There are better thrillers out there. I can't say that I recommend this one unless you happen to not be triggered at all by violence against women, and also have a deep interest in all three: historic L.A., F Scott Fitzgerald, and the ins and outs of the business side of the art world.

I will discuss the ending of the book after the spoilers tag below.

***SPOILERS BELOW***

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Dec 21, 2017 Jessica Woodbury rated it really liked it

Shelves: arc, crime-mystery

When a crime novel is set in a very specific place or time or industry, it can sometimes feel more like a gimmick than something where the story flows organically from it. But in STILL LIVES, more than any novel about art in my recent memory, the gallery and the art all feel alive and honest. Perhaps the thing that's bothered me most about novels about art and artists is the way the reader just has to accept that the art is vibrant and interesting, often it fails to appear that way on the page. ...more

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Jun 28, 2018 Chandra Claypool (wherethereadergrows) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: arc, netgalley

I'm quickly coming to realize that books about possession or art just don't work for me all that well. While this one is centered around a missing artist and the behind the scenes of where she could possibly be, the underlying world of art and what people consider art just does not interest me.

At one point, I thought this was going to go in the direction of Exhibit Alexandra and I was going to be REALLY MAD about it. Thankfully it did NOT. For that I thank you, Hummel.

I think this book is more ...more

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Nov 14, 2018 Roman Clodia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

"She also says that unless women artists simultaneously inhabit the roles of artist and subject, the art world will never escape the prison of the male gaze"

This may not be the first book to make literary capital out of the juxtaposition of contemporary art, sexualised violence against women and murder, but it weaves its themes together with considerable deftness to create something that is immensely readable while constructed on a foundation of feminist aesthetics.

The first person narrator, ...more

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Dec 17, 2018 Susan rated it really liked it

Shelves: vine

This is a thriller with a very interesting setting. The main character, Maggie Richter, works at the Rocque Museum in LA. This is an art gallery, where the newest, Gala opening, is for the artist, Kim Lord’s, latest exhibition. The exhibition, ‘Still Lives’, involves artworks, presenting famous, female, murder victims.

Maggie has mixed feelings about this exhibition; not only because of the theme of the paintings, but also because Kim Lord is the lover of art gallery owner, Greg Shaw Ferguson. G ...more

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May 05, 2018 Anna At A Wondrous Bookshelf rated it liked it

Everyone seems to be giving this book at least 4 stars but in reality just like art is subjective so are books. I really, and I mean, really struggled with this book at least until 60% of the story. It’s not that it is a badly written book, it was just boring and slow. The other half of the book gets a bit better but the ending did not wow me and by the time I was done with the book I was tired of reading it.

I’d like to thank Edelweiss for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for my hon ...more

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Jun 01, 2018 Meranda rated it it was ok

Honestly. One of the worst books I have read this year. However it is not for a lack of trying. I just couldn’t connect with any of the characters and the story never seemed to get off the ground. I was really disappointed because I was looking forward to reading this and it was a let down.
I skimmed half the book just to figure out what happened at the end.

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Nov 23, 2018 Robert Blumenthal rated it it was amazing

This novel is one of those very literary thrillers which is immersed in the modern, contemporary art world. Maggie is a copy editor who works for a modern museum in Los Angelos. They are about to put on an exhibition by Kim Lord where she paints herself as various women in history who were murdered (e.g., Nicole Simpson Brown, the Black Dahlia, etc.). Kim doesn't show up for her premiere, and the plot continues to where Maggie is trying to find out what happened to her. Kim happens to be the cur ...more

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Aug 29, 2018 Jerrie (redwritinghood) rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Picked up this audiobook on Hoopla. It was a botm pick previously, so I thought I’d give it a try. But, like many contemporary murder mystery/thrillers, I found the story unrealistic, plot thin, and characters ridiculous. I don’t understand why women in these stories all make such bad decisions. This one was a disappointment for me, and I’m starting to think that this just isn’t my genre.

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Nov 06, 2018 Kate~Bibliophile Book Club added it · review of another edition

I wanted to love this one, I really did, but it just didn’t work for me. Maybe it’s a case of right book, wrong time, but at the moment this one fell wide of the mark for me!

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Sep 16, 2018 Bam rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2018-reads, library-book, thriller-suspense

*3.5 stars rounded up.

Maggie Richter works for a private art museum in L.A. and they are getting ready to present an exhibit of paintings by Kim Lord called Still Lives, depicting the gruesome deaths of several young women, all famous cases torn from the headlines. Kim has also been living with Maggie's former lover Greg, and this still rankles with the broken-hearted Maggie. On the night of the Grand Opening, Kim is a no-show and soon her disappearance is investigated as a possible murder, wit ...more

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Jun 29, 2018 Darinda rated it liked it

Maggie works in an art gallery where an exciting new exhibition is premiering. The exhibition is by Kim Lord, and includes self-portraits depicting herself as famous murder victims. On opening night, Kim is a no-show. As hours and days pass, it appears something sinister may have happened to Kim. Maggie starts asking questions, and trying to piece together what has happened to Kim.

This story is told from Maggie's point of view. As Maggie looks into Kim's disappearance, she learns more about her ...more

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