Praise for Killing the Emperors... and style than Ruth Dudley Edwards." -New York Times
"Not just an expert crime story, but a
stinging satire of the madhouse of the
modern art world...a delight. "
-Andrew Klavan,
author of The Homelanders series
Lady (Jack) Troutbeck is missing. So is celebrity
curator Sir Henry Fortune and his partner, art
dealer Jason Pringle, along with a growing list
of celebrities who populate the London art
world. Then when news comes of a New York
disappearance, the fears of the art establishment
go transAtlantic. But why is Baroness Troutbeck
a target? Can Jack's friends rescue her before
she becomes the next horrifying "hommage
murder" satirizing notorious works of art?
Ruth Dudley Edwards, an historian and prizewinning
biographer, has written seriously and/or
frivolously for almost every national newspaper in
the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom
since 1993. She won the Last Laugh award for
the funniest crime novel of the year in 2008 for
Murdering Americans.
www.ruthdudleyedwards.co.uk