Are you looking for a mystery thriller series to cozy down with?
Framed and Burning is the second novel in the award-winning series Dreamslippers by Lisa Brunette.
A couple of PIs with the ability to "slip" into another person's dreams find themselves defending one of their own. Someone sets fire to Mick Travers’ studio, killing his assistant, and Mick won't give an alibi. Eccentric Granny Grace and her level-headed granddaughter Cat hope to prove his innocence and hunt down the real killer. Will they discover that a jealous rival was out to destroy Mick’s art—and reputation? Or is something even darker behind the arson and murder?
Kirkus Reviews describes the first novel, Cat in the Flock, as "a mystery with an unusual twist and quirky settings; an enjoyable surprise for fans of the genre."
The Dreamslippers Series is about a family of PIs with the ability to "slip" into another person's dreams. They find it's a gift with limitations... and consequences.
About the Author:
Lisa Brunette is the author of the Dreamslippers mystery series, winner of an indieBRAG medallion and praised by Kirkus Reviews, Midwest Book Review, and others. Brunette is a career writer with a long list of newspaper and magazine bylines and story design credits in hundreds of bestselling video games. She holds an MFA from the University of Miami, where she was a Michener Fellow. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in magazines and won her numerous awards.
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Dr. Canon was sitting on a stool, legs akimbo, staring at a half-finished canvas, a lit cigarette dangling from one hand. He did not respond to the sound of their footsteps on the tiled floor.
“Chester, darling,” his wife said, raising her voice, as he must be hard of hearing. “That lady detective is here to see you. The one who called.”
At that, Dr. Canon turned and spied Cat over the top of thick reading glasses. What little hair he had left on his head had been combed back neatly with some sort of hair cream. There was a pack of cigarettes in his left shirt pocket. He was wearing a tropical cabana shirt and white loafers with trouser shorts. He looked like a very old-school Florida cracker. Cat thought about the mug in her Uncle Mick’s dream, the one Rose dropped.
“A lady detective, eh? Well, why don’t you sit down, my dear.” He motioned to a hardback chair across from his canvas.
“I’ll bring you some sweet tea,” said his wife.
“That’d be lovely, Louise,” said Chester, with a touch of real feeling that surprised Cat. This was the man her great uncle characterized as “genuine only in his capacity for evil.”
“So… You had it in for Mick Travers when he was a student in the MFA program at Columbia,” Cat prompted.
“Who’s that, you say? Travers…” he put a finger to the side of his head as if mentally thumbing through a Rolodex of names. Cat wasn’t sure she bought the act.
“You must forgive me,” said Dr. Canon with a broad, apologetic smile. “I’m a professor emeritus now. I actively taught in the program at Columbia for more than forty years. So I’ve had thousands of students come through my studio classes in that time. The names alone don’t register.”
Cat’s face flushed with frustration. He certainly wasn’t going to make this easy for her, and she wondered if he were, in fact, putting on a show.
“Mick Travers,” Cat said. “He’s quite well-known in the art world now; his work has been featured in Art in Our Time and elsewhere. He was honored at Art Basel. He was your student in the mid-Seventies, back when he was in his thirties. You, ah, didn’t think he had any talent.”
Dr. Canon chuckled, shaking his head. “You just described a good twenty percent of the crowds of students I’ve seen over the years. Columbia’s a top program, as I’m sure you’ve discovered in your research.” He set his cigarette in a glass ash tray on a table next to him and picked up the brush that was teetering on the edge of his easel. As if bored by Cat’s line of questioning, he began to dab at the painting, bits of maroon paint over what resembled a muddy field.
Cat cleared her throat. “Well, maybe you’ll remember this: You opposed him for the National Emerging Artist award, but one of your rivals in the department submitted his work anyway. And Mick Travers won. Proving you wrong.”
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