Van Hazard is a volatile insurance investigator with an attitude and a long memory. Half black and half white, at war with himself and a world he finds fault with, Hazard is an uncompromising former NYPD detective and aspiring artist who pays the bills as a freelance specialist solving claims of lost and stolen art.
Hazard receives a frantic call for help from his close friend and manager, Curtis Huntington, but arrives too late to save him and a mutual friend from perishing in a mysterious fire. He can only save a stranger who babbles that the fire was started by a celebrated artist recently dead.
Sparked by guilt over the death of two friends and haunted by the loose ends of a prior case involving the same dead artist, Hazard’s hardnosed probe ignites a tinderbox of treachery, greed and twisted obsession as he descends into a world of duplicity and deception.
Will he overcome his own private demons and prevent a celebrated artist from completing his greatest and most brazen work? Find out in D. Jeffrey Ostling’s Portrait of Deadly Excess.
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ISBN13 (TP) 978-1-4415-0707-5
ISBN13 (HB) 978-1-4415-0708-2