A Butterfly in Flame, Nicholas Kilmer
A Butterfly in Flame, Nicholas Kilmer
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A Butterfly in Flame
A Fred Taylor Art Mystery

Author: Nicholas Kilmer

Narrator: John Lescault

Unabridged: 8 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/02/2010

Synopsis

Stillton Academy, a small art college on the New England coast north of Boston, is in financial trouble, and its days are numbered unless someone provides extraordinary help. The final straw may be the sudden disappearance of an instructor with a female studentthe daughter of the Academys only significant donor. Art critic Fred Taylor, called in to troubleshoot, goes undercover as a member of the faculty and shortly finds himself enmeshed in the conflicting motives and designs of faculty and students, as well as those of a board of trustees whose interest in the long?term survival of the operation seems lazy, misguided, orperhapsa good deal more sinister. Meanwhile, as the town of Stillton, Massachusetts, is visited by murder, the motives of Freds employer, the collector Clayton Reed, remain obscure.What is there in the town, or at the college, that whets his acute acquisitive instincts?He will not say, beyond his hermetic instructions, Trust no one.Look at everything. And everyone.Freds assignment takes him to the Life Room, where his students sometimes moonlight as life models.Are his temporary colleagues eccentrics or just artists? Clayton Reed collects art.Thats what he lives for.In sleepy Stilltona town ripe for development, though suspiciously backward and unexploitedwhat hidden treasure is Clayton hoping for?And can Fred find it before the college goes up in flames? A Poisoned Pen Press Mystery

About Nicholas Kilmer

Nicholas Kilmer, formerly dean of the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts, presently makes his living in the art business.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cheryl on March 13, 2011

Thanks to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press, I received an e-copy of A Butterfly in Flame: A Fred Taylor Art Mystery to review on my Kindle. I had not read this series previously, and I'll admit, I found the first few chapters somewhat hard to follow, but I stuck with it and eventually got the charact......more

Goodreads review by Beth on May 05, 2011

A BUTTERFLY IN FLAME is the seventh Fred Taylor art mystery by Kilmer. Fred Taylor is a problem solver for Clayton Reed, a very wealthy Bostonian and very serious art collector. Clayton’s first rule is that no one should ever know when he is interested in a piece of art. It is Fred’s job to ensure th......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on March 26, 2011

Fred Taylor is a glorified gopher working for a secretive art collector, and where there are people willing to spend serious money for art, there's a murder for Fred to solve. This time Fred is working semi-undercover for Stillton Academy, a quiet little art college in a too-quiet little North Shore......more

Goodreads review by Jenn on July 21, 2010

A Butterfly in Flame-by Nicholas Kilmer Being a native Bostonian, I am always eager to read books that take place in Massachusetts. I always like to look for accuracy and proper portrayal of the area (fictional or non-fictional). I was eager to read A Butterfly in Flame, which took place in the fict......more

Goodreads review by Susan on January 15, 2011

Fred Taylor works as a troubleshooter for wealthy, secretive art collector Clayton Reed. But Clayton seems willing to let Fred help the Stillson academy of art when a teacher and student disappear. Fred is to substitute for the teacher and investigate at the same time. Fred doesn't know much about t......more

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