Blood mask
Subtitle: a novel of suspense
By: by Lauren Kelly.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780061119033
Subjects: Women art collectors -- Fiction; Artists -- Fiction; Missing persons -- Fiction; New York (State) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Awealthy, charismatic, and controversial "benefactress of art," Drewe Hildebrand disappears from her estate on the Hudson River, seemingly abducted in the night. Her young niece, Marta, found in a desolate wooded area close by, is too traumatized to describe the abductors. A provocative exhibit of avant-garde "bio-art" that includes a blood mask of Drewe Hildebrand is disrupted by protestors. In this, her third suspense novel, Lauren Kelly explores the startling world of "bio-artists" and their admirers, examining the intermingling of private, inscrutable motives with public masks of dominance and power; the ways in which spiritual yearnings may be transformed into worldly, erotic appetites that consume the innocent."--Publisher's website.

"A wealthy, charismatic, and controversial "benefactress of art," Drewe Hildebrand disappears from her estate on the Hudson River, seemingly abducted in the night. Her young niece, Marta, found in a desolate wooded area close by, is too traumatized to describe the abductors."--Jacket.