This is a gently used soft cover book in VERY GOOD CONDITION—from a smoke-free environment.  The photo you see is of the actual item you will receive.  Please feel free to ask any questions you have about this listing.    

KILLING FOR KLIMT – A Megan Crespi Mystery Series Novel - by ALESSANDRA COMINI. 

In this first in the Megan Crespi Mystery Series, retired art history professor Megan Crespi, an expert on the Viennese artist Gustav Klimt, becomes involved in a race to recover the Secretum, a ''shameful, secret panel'' stolen from the artist's studio the night after his death in February of 1918. Her travels, at the behest of New York's Moderne Galerie Museum, owner of the famed 1907 ''golden'' Klimt portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, take her from the high desert of Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Switzerland's Ascona, as well as to New York, Vienna, Helsinki, Paris, Montreal, and Girdwood, Alaska. Megan is shadowed by two different assassins hired by fanatical Günther Winter. Owner of Alaska's Alpenglow Hotel, he keeps his secret art collection in an annex basement. Several killings occur involving the interested criminal parties and naive owners of Klimt artworks. Finally setting up a trade--Winter's Secretum for the golden Adele--Crespi and two colleagues fly to Alaska. They bring with them two crates: one purporting to contain the Adele portrait, and a larger one to receive the Secretum panel. But there, greed leads to unexpected and colossal consequences. Will Megan survive the final killing for Klimt? (Includes Readers Guide)

Published by Sunstone Press - ©2014 – ISBN 978-1-63293-006-4 – 2065 pages.    

The book is in very good condition; light reading wear; binding tight; pages clean and crisp--no writing, no underlining, no highlighting; cover edges rubbed/chipped; normal shelf wear.  Nice, tight, clean, crisp copy.