Still as Death
By Sarah Stewart Taylor
(St. Martin's Paperbacks, Mass Market Paperback, 9780312948351, 320pp.)
Publication Date: October 2, 2007
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover
Categories: Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
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Art history professor Sweeney St. George is preparing an exhibit on her specialty, "the art of death," for the university museum when she makes an unusual discovery: A valuable piece of Egyptian funerary jewelry in the museum's collection is missing. Searching for answers, Sweeney learns of a young woman--a student named Karen Philips--who died of an apparent suicide soon after being the last to check out the piece more than twenty-five years ago.
The show must go on without the intricately beaded Egyptian collar, but Sweeney just can't let the mystery drop once she discovers that Karen was working at the museum the night it was robbed that same year. Then a murder brings the museum under the scrutiny of Cambridge, Mass. Detective Tim Quinn. Together they go after a killer, trying to resolve questions of the past…before a clear and present danger catches up with them both.
SARAH STEWART TAYLOR is the author of three previous Sweeney St. George mysteries, including the Agatha Award finalist O' Artful Death. She lives with her family in Vermont. Visit her online at www.sarahstewarttaylor.com
"Alluring…diligently plotted and layered."--The New York Times Book Review "Entertains, educates, and confirms Taylor as a master of the genre."--Richmond Times-Dispatch
"The best yet in one terrific series."--Julia Spencer-Fleming, Edgar Award finalist and author of All Mortal Flesh
"Riveting."--Publishers Weekly "Finely plotted and smoothly written."--The Vermont Guardian (A Best Book of 2006)
"Taylor has a good eye for chicanery and weaves a vicious web of sexual exploitation, the compulsion to own and possess, big money, illegal collections, skullduggery, and deceit that keeps the reader guessing."--Providence Journal
"In a genre full of amateur sleuths, [Sweeney] sparkles with originality. The series has been around long enough now to comfortably predict it'll have a nice long run."-- Booklist
"Excellent….The combination of Sweeney's work life and emotional life, and the gift of the good mystery on top of that, make this series not to be missed.--Mystery Readers Journal
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