by Ronnie Levine (Author)

A brush with murder!

Art forgery and murder are the last things Lissa Franklin expects to encounter when her hunt for beautiful places to paint brings her to Tarrytown. Twenty miles up the Hudson from the fame-and money-oriented New York art scene she dislikes, Tarrytown has a charming Main Street that inspires her. Charismatic cop Nick Bellini, whose family owns the ice cream shop in Lissa's first local painting, admires her work and asks her to be on the lookout for forgeries that may be coming out of the area. Drawn to him but hesitant, she takes the plunge and tells him when she sees a questionable Monet in the home of a local power couple. Her involvement gets dangerous when she responds to a vague request for help from a fellow artist and finds him dead in his studio. Is there a link to the forgeries? Is someone in the art community a killer? Could Lissa be the next target?

Author Biography

Ronnie Levine is an artist and writer who's been working in Westchester, New York, since 1998. Like her protagonist, she paints figurative oils influenced by the French Impressionists. With a degree in psychology but an overriding passion for art, she attended The Art Institute of Boston, The International Center of Photography, and The Art Students League of New York. She continued her training on her own by doing copies of many of her favorite master works in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, noting along the way how her works and those of the other copyists differed from the originals. Her own original oil paintings and prints are in many private collections. Painting in public led to teaching and then writing, and her numerous non-fiction articles about art and people in the arts have appeared in Westchester Magazine and local newspapers and news websites.

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