The Art of Obsession

By Douglas J. Ostling

In The Art of Obsession, a haunting fresh take on vintage crime fiction, volatile insurance investigator Van Hazard is unable to save two friends from being murdered by a dead man.Arriving to find his friends trapped in a raging fire, Hazard rushes into the blaze but can only rescue a young stranger telling a bizarre tale alleging a famed artist came back from the dead to commit murder. Determined to learn the truth, Hazard gets himself hired to find several priceless paintings suspiciously missing from the collection of one of the deceased. Aided by his fearlessly free-spirited partner, Kyoko Dunne, and driven by guilt, a host of private demons, and a festering brood of old scores, Hazard's hardnosed probe soon uncovers a murderous trail of deception and betrayal as he races to derail a celebrated artist's deadly obsession.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FRGQ13SX
• ISBN13: 9798992980110
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Cryptic Glyph Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"