O' Artful Death: A Mystery (Sweeney St. George Mysteries) - Hardcover

Taylor, Sarah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312307640 ISBN 13: 9780312307646

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2003

Synopsis

Newcomer Sarah Stewart Taylor delivers a compelling and atmospheric cozy mystery that introduces Sweeney St. George, an art historian in Boston with a special interest in the art of death.

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From the Back Cover:

Now her tomb lies quiet...
Sweeney St. George looks nothing like a university Professor with her unruly red curls and preference for vintage clothing. Single and wary of relationships, she pours her energy into her college teaching and a passionate interest in cemetery art. And now Sweeney is intrigued with a macabre graveyard statue of a beautiful woman-a carving that is at once astonishing, sinister, and perhaps hiding a one-hundred-year-old murder...

And Death bids me to follow....
Dying to find out more about the strange monument, Sweeney heads for a winter holiday among friends at a mansion in Vermont's historic Byzantium Art Colony. Her plan is to snoop in dusty archives and tromp through the tiny cemetery where the statue still stands. But what Sweeney finds in this isolated rural community is an emotional awakening, a chilling link between old and new crimes...and a clever killer reaching for her with deadly hands.

"A strikingly atmospheric debut. The writing is crisp and the characters all quite forcefully alive, especially Sweeney." -Denver Post

About the Author:

Sarah Stewart Taylor, an avid gravestone buff, is a freelance journalist in Vermont. Her great-grandmother belonged to a New Hampshire arts colony. This is her first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0312307640
• ISBN 13: 9780312307646
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288