| Seattle lawyer Matt Riordan is a mann for whom finding out the troth is more than a prepositional responsibility, it s a kind of curse. Even when Matt knows t would be better for all concerned if he settled down and watched the sun set from the perch of his lakeside cabin, he can t leave well enough alone. This time it begins with a picture on the back of a postcard. Recently painted in amber watercolor, it shows the head of a small bird emerging from a brass jar, almost as if one were giving birth to the other. The recipient of this enigmatic postcard is Lisa 1hayer,an attractive young art dealer whose grandfather was afamous painter of the Pacific Northwest School. Lisa isconvinced he painted the picture, but Lee Thayer died tenyears before, when his car spun off n cliff on a dark wetnight. If Thayer didn t paint that picture, an astonishinglytalented art forger is announcing himself to Lisa. When Lisa asks Matt to investigate the origin of thepainting and find either a forger or her grandfather, heknows that a postcard from a dead man can only meantrouble. He also knows he should refuse to get involved.But the possibility of spending more time with Lisa is tootempting. Matt s search for the forger leads him back fifty yearsinto the past, to a wild student party on a houseboat inPortage Bay, where a beautiful and talented young womanwas murdered. Matt suspects there s a connection betweenthat crime, the death of Lee Thayer, and the picturepostcard. Before he finds the truth he will have to plungeinto the world of organized crime and high finance, defendboth Lisa and himself against grave danger, and see moredeaths added to a half-century of tragedy. In Picture Postcard, Fredrick Huebner has written acomplex mystery of love and jealousy/; of long-kept secretsand wasted gifts. It is a nevel distinguished by the samedepth of characterization, taut suspense, and evocativeatmosphere that earned him an Edgar nomination for hisprevious mystery, Judgment by Fire. |
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