Arianne LeClaire

By: Harry Steven Lazerus

A young artist follows a beautiful and mysterious woman to a dock off the Hudson River late at night. They talk, walk, and she takes him to her apartment where he sketches her. They make love. The next day, when he returns to give her the finished sketch, he finds the unlocked apartment empty and learns that no woman lives there; it has been empty for months. When night falls, he goes back to the dock where he met her. The next day his body is found floating in the Hudson River. The sketch was left on the dock.Alexander Salem, an investigative reporter, drops the complex case he is working on when his son urgently asks him to investigate the artist's death. When Salem finally tracks down the subject of the sketch, Arianne LeClaire, she proclaims her innocence. Arianne also claims to be able to see into the past and the future, and knew that the artist who sketched her was going to die soon. The ultra-rational Salem, despite himself, is thoroughly seduced by Arianne, and ends up spending the night in her bed. When he wakes up, she is gone.Haunted by Arianne, by the face on the canvas, unable to believe the charges against her, he falls deeper and deeper into a web of intrigue and long buried secrets, until he too becomes a target for the death that has begun to stalk the dead painter's family.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DC9RX55X
• ISBN13: 9798991146319
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Copan Books
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"