Deadly Impressions

Story Merchant Books launches Art Johnson's second detective

thriller  Deadly Impressions after his premier critically acclaimed

The Devil’s Violin.  The musician/writer who worked with Lena

Horne, Tim Buckley and Pavarotti to name a few resides in

Monaco.

    His newest novel begins with the kidnapping of Pasadena

billionaire Ezekiel Fick's granddaughter.   Enter ex-LA PD

Lieutenant Arnold "Arney" Blackburn who has become a private

eye since his dismissal from the force.  But the abduction doesn’t

follow the rule book and now an L.A. drug lord, a Chicago

gangster, and a host of Hollywood's "A" list are all potentially

involved.  

   Eighty-year-old Ezekiel Fick hides a life changing secret in his

past. His uncle Roderich, a preferred architect of Adolf Hitler, left

him a fortune in impressionist paintings by none other than Claude Monet, works that were

thought to be destroyed nearly a century ago.

    Tensions mount as Arney joins forces with FBI agents Chris Clarke and Carlos

"Chubbs".Gonzales (The Devils Violin) to weed through the overgrowth of the Hollywood Hills

in search of the missing girl and to find out who her real abductors are.  Even PI Arney

Blackburn is completely baffled by the time the final curtain falls.  He never saw this one

    Deadly Impressions pits ghosts from the past against those phantoms in control of the present

to weave a haunting story that will stay with you long after you turn the last page.