The Brutal Art Author:Jesse Kellerman In a New York slum, an elderly tenant has mysteriously disappeared, leaving behind a huge collection of disturbing but brilliant paintings. For forty years, he came and went in solitude, his genius undiscovered. No one knows anything much about him. For art dealer Ethan Muller, this is the discovery of a lifetime. He displays the pictures in his... more » gallery and watches as they rocket up in value. But suddenly the police want to talk to him. It seems that the missing artist had a sinister past - and the drawings in Ethan's gallery start to look less like art and more like evidence. Sucked into an investigation four decades old, Ethan will uncover a secret legacy of shame and death, one that will touch horrifyingly close to home - and leave him fearing for his own life.« less