Red Canvas

Lise Norwood runs a small private investigation business in San Marco, Florida, a coastal city. Her days are spent delivering legal papers, and some nights she gathers evidence on unfaithful partners. It is an unlikely path for someone who earned an art history degree at San Marco University.

When the police need an outside expert, they bring Lise in to advise on a killing where the body has been arranged to echo a famous Greek statue. She returns to her art history training and joins the investigation. The killer, a figure the press calls Michelangelo, keeps using his victims as the raw material for new recreations of classic artwork. Lise begins her own inquiry, and the homicide detectives respond by removing her from the case for exceeding the limits of her role. Her exclusion only pushes her to look harder, and the search grows more dangerous and more personal once she discovers that she has been picked as the killer's next subject.