Publisher's Synopsis
""I want you to solve my murder," said the woman in white. Rachel Savernake gave a sardonic smile. "Quite a challenge." The woman in white-surreal artist Damaris Gethin-has invited a select group to the opening of her exhibit "Artist in Crime," held in the eerie subterranean Hades Gallery. As costumed models reenact famously violent deaths, the artist herself portrays Marie Antoinette on the day of her execution, complete with a guillotine on the stage. It's not a prop; within ten minutes of Rachel's promise to solve Damaris's future murder, the artist slips her neck into the collar of the device and the very real blade sends her head rolling at the feet of her horrified audience. As everyone reels from the shock, Rachel quickly learns that Damaris herself accomplished the deed with the push of a button-a suicide. So then why did she ask Rachel to solve her "murder?" Keen for the hunt, Rachel begins sniffing around the other invited gue
