Title: The artist of the missing
First published: 1999
Description: Frank, a young artist, arrives in the city hoping to unravel the mystery of his parents' disappearance. He begins working as a washer of robes at a hotel for itinerant judges. There he meets and falls in love with Prudence, a forensic photographer whose pictures reveal the secrets of the dead.

When Prudence disappears, Frank sets out in search of her, a quest that leads him into the shadowy world of a revolutionary salon, then to prison, and, finally to discover the city's strange secrets and the secrets of his own heart.
Subjects: Fiction, psychological, Fiction, political, South america, fiction, Missing persons, Fiction, City and town life, Romance fiction
LC classification: PS3562.A269 A89 1999