Taylor, Sarah Stewart – O' ARTFUL DEATH

[LJ Roberts]

O' ARTFUL DEATH (Amateur Sleuth-Vermont-Cont) – Poor Taylor, Sarah Stewart – 1^st book
St. Martin's Press, 2003-Hardcover

Sweeney St. George is an art historian with an interest in death art. A friend has relatives in the town and invites Sweeney to come with him for Christmas in Byzantium, Vermont, peaking her interest with the photograph of a very unusual gravestone from the 19^th century art colony there. In trying to track down the stone's history, she comes to believe the girl beneath the stone was murdered. When the great-aunt of the girl is also found dead, Sheeney wonders weather there is a connection.

The subject of funeral art is fascinating. However, there was no character development and I found myself slogging through the book anxious for it to end.