OPEN WINDOW

by Aaron Bowles

Buck Madison thought a fixer-upper cabin in a bucolic Virginia valley would be the perfect retreat. After his wife and child died in childbirth and a bruising escape from the FBI Art Crime force, he just wants to build a new life in a mountain cabin near his hometown where nothing much happens.
But his PI agency partner has an art conservator cousin, who’s just finished retouching a dubious Matisse painting. She is found dead in the grass outside a fourth story locked room. Buck and Lacey Martin, a gorgeous international auction house curator must identify the killer, one of her friends in Washington DC – or a hired assassin. Racing against time, they need to untangle the painting’s mysterious allure for the killer to stop further murders before becoming the killer’s next victims, in this thrilling and seductive mystery.

247 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 13, 2024

About the author

A lifelong Virginian, Aaron Bowles attended Virginia Commonwealth University were he studied English and Communication Arts. He began his professional career as an illustrator and animator, and later became a creative director. A former assistant professor of design, Aaron taught art at George Mason University to wildly opinionated students. Currently, Aaron paints Abstract Landscapes and Post-Impressionist artworks and exhibits widely. He is also a former registered private investigator, financial advisor, and car salesman. Aaron lives in Richmond in a neighborhood full of green yards and kids with two crazy Cairn terriers, and his lovely, spirited wife Edie, whom he met at the age of 16.

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