Shot In Detroit e-bog

Nominated for the Edgar Award and the Anthony AwardViolet Hart is a photographer who has always returned to cobble out a life for herself in the oddly womblike interiors of Detroit. Nearing forty, shes keenly aware that the time for artistic recognition is running out. When her lover, Bill, a Detroit mortician, needs a photograph of a body, she agrees to takes the picture. Its an artistic success and Violet is energized by the subject matter, persuading Bill to allow her to take pictures of some of his other clients, eventually settling on photographing young, black men.When Violets new portfolio is launched, she quickly strikes a deal, agreeing to produce a dozen pictures with a short deadline, confident because dead bodies are commonplace in Detroit and she has access to the citys most prominent mortician. These demands soon place Violet in the position of having to strain to meet her quota.As time runs out, how will Violet come up with enough subjects to photograph without losing her soul or her life in the process? A riveting novel of psychological suspense, Patricia Abbott continues to cement herself as one of our very best writers of the darkness that lies within the human heart.