
Mitch Berger's quiet retreat to Dorset, New York, is turned upside down when state trooper Desiree Mitry asks him to help in investigating a violent death in a speeding Porsche and an attempted suicide by the school superintendent.

"Mitch stammered, stunned. It had just hit him. He had not happened upon just any old wino. The man standing down in the bin was Dorset's most famous and reclusive resident, Wendell Frye, the man who had single-handedly redefined modern American sculpture...His towering, breathtaking...