The Death Collectors
In 1972, on the day of his sentencing, renowned artist and serial killer Marsden Hexcamp is shot dead in the courtroom. Members of his Mansonesque band of followers are imprisoned or simply disappear. Fast-forward more than thirty years: A suspected prostitute is found murdered in a ...
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In 1972, on the day of his sentencing, renowned artist and serial killer Marsden Hexcamp is shot dead in the courtroom. Members of his Mansonesque band of followers are imprisoned or simply disappear. Fast-forward more than thirty years: A suspected prostitute is found murdered in a candlelit motel room, the first in a series of horrors suggesting Hexcamp’s art remains alive and treacherous. Following a trail of beautiful--and profoundly disturbing--artwork, homicide detectives Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus descend into the shocking world of the Death Collectors, people who spend vast sums to collect serial-killer memorabilia. As Ryder and Nautilus race to solve a thirty-year conspiracy, it becomes sadly evident that at the intersection of art and madness, death is beauty, tragedy a memento, and suffering suitable for framing.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780525948773 (0525948775)
ASIN: 525948775
Publish date: June 23rd 2005
Publisher: Collins
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Series: Carson Ryder (#2)
I like stories where you see a little bit of the past before the story takes off properly. Here we visit the end of a trial for murder - the trial of Marsden Hexcamp a serial killer who liked to capture the final moment in paintings. A man with followers, women willing to die for him. A man who d...