Art Hound: Dev Haskell Private Investigator, Book 16

Nominated for a Minnesota Book award. Art Hound is the 16th title in the award-winning Dev Haskell series. Private Investigator Dev Haskell makes the mistake of having a compassionate side when he attempts to help out a starving artist and sometime acquaintance, Demarcus Cantrell for 'just' a couple of days after his girlfriend has thrown him out. In short order, Dev's home is overflowing with ugly paintings, boxes of books, tubes of paint, cans of turpentine, rolls of canvas, no beer left in the fridge...and Dev begins to see things from the girlfriend's point of view. Add to that the sudden appearance of disgruntled Farrell Finley, the subject of Dev's ongoing investigation, and things start to get more than a little crazy. Demarcus suddenly disappears, there's a kidnapping, and things suddenly go from bad to downright terrible with a cast of international criminals and an investigation that turns out to be not all it's cracked up to be. Art Hound Dev Haskell's latest attempt at culture! Fans of Carl Hiaasen, Tim Dorsey, and Laurence Shames love it!