Cezanne · Olde Virginia · Rural Wealthy • PI Chase
MONT SAINTE VICTOIRE
Family secrets are the deadliest.
Ex-FBI art crime agent Buck Madison accepts a job from a demanding billionaire to find a Paul Cezanne painting stolen from an old Virginia estate, only to be ensnared in family resentments. As he investigates, tensions escalate from whispered rumors to outright threats, forcing Buck to rely on a lovely and sharp deputy sheriff, while they unravel a deeper conspiracy. Ultimately, the painting proves to be far more than a precious collectible, revealing the billionaire’s chilling obsessions, while assassins strike from the river’s dark night.
Van Gogh · Buck Goes Undercover · Psychiatric Hospital · Genuine or Forgery?
STARRY NIGHT CRIMES
The mind is a dangerous room.
An eccentric donor gives an elite psychiatric hospital a newly discovered Van Gogh painting. Former FBI Art Crime special agent Buck Madison is skeptical, but goes undercover and researches van Gogh’s life, to determine whether the canvas is a lost masterpiece or a multimillion-dollar fraud designed to bury something darker when the stakes explode. People are dying. The place is stocked with a circus of patients and thugs. But the locked wards conceal more than madness: festering institutional neglect, financial crimes, and a diligent mob enforcer who wants him silenced. MORE…
Matisse · Locked Room Mystery · DC Suspects · Assassin
OPEN WINDOW
An angel has no memory.
Former FBI Art Crime agent Buck Madison teams up with sharp-eyed auction house curator Lacey Martin to crack a locked-room murder and prove a Matisse is real. The cousin of Buck’s partner at the investigation agency has just finished retouching the long-lost painting, when she’s found broken and dead on the lawn beneath her fourth-floor garret. With a list of suspects that includes her old school friends and maybe a pro killer, Buck and the curator have to move fast through Washington, DC’s streets to learn who wanted her silenced and why, before the killer targets them.
Georgia O’Keeffe · Museum Theft · Chase Scenes · Thugs ‘n Crooks
BLACK IRIS
I’m frightened all the time.
But I never let it stop me. Never!
Buck Madison, early thirties, wisecracker, and former FBI Art Crime agent, is restoring a mountain cabin, when his partner at their private investigation agency tells Buck a priceless Georgia O’Keeffe painting has been stolen from a DC art museum. The board wants to keep the theft secret. Buck is the perfect choice to find the painting. But the museum also demands that Lacey Martin, headstrong, tattooed, intuitive, gorgeous, and a PhD educated curator, help him with his search. To find the plundered artwork, Lacey recounts the Georgia O’Keeffe origin story of how the artist painted the masterpiece “Black Iris”, Georgia’s marriage to impresario art dealer Alfred Stieglitz, and her secret affair with the founder of the museum.
Frank W. Benson · DC, NoVa · Senator & Police Pressure · Fast Paced
DAYLIGHT GIRLS
One man stands between a masterpiece and murder.
Former FBI Art Crime agent Buck Madison is called to a Senator’s Potomac River home to investigate a crime, where the politician’s mistress was found strangled, and a priceless American Impressionist painting has vanished.
Buck drags his bruised past along for the ride. He pushes past hostile cops and the Senator’s political stalling. But one suspect is hiding a killer, who wants him erased. The case turns feral, a thrilling chase through depravity and threats. Every spike of anger around Buck tells him he’s almost found the truth, and is one step from getting buried himself.