Portrait of Deadly Excess

A haunting work of literary suspense in which nothing is what it seems. Van Hazard, a volatile freelance investigator, is unable to save two friends from a mysterious fire. Arriving too late on the scene to prevent the blaze, he can only rescue a stranger who tells a bizarre tale alleging his two friends were killed by a dead man. Sparked by guilt and driven by a host of personal demons, Hazard's hard-nosed probe into what really happened ignites a tinderbox of treachery, greed and twisted obsession as he races to keep a celebrated artist from completing his greatest and most brazen work --- a spellbinding Portrait of Deadly Excess.