Body of Work

Body of Work, the 11th entry in the Carina Quintana Murder Mysteries series by author David M Benson, opens with the gruesome murder of a wealthy art collector at his waterfront mansion in Miami Beach. Carina, recently out of a brief retirement, had joined the Florida Department of Law Enforcement--the state's FBI--and now headed up the region's Investigations and Forensic Science unit. The nature of the killing prompted Miami Beach PD to request that she join the investigation. Her first surprise was that the murder had taken place essentially in her backyard, on the same small island where Carina shared a house with her wife, Alice, and their baby daughter. This would turn out to be the first of many surprises when another, seemingly related, murder occurs and she is drawn deeper and deeper into the arcane world of six and seven figure paintings and those that create the works of art and those who create and run the markets in which they are bought and sold.