Lesson in Red

Name: Lesson in Red
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Maria Hummel
ISBN: 9781696603034

Author: Maria Hummel

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 10 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 06/01/2021

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Suspense & Thriller, Crime

Synopsis

A savvy Los Angeles thriller about art, power, and gender, set in the world of Still Lives, a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine selection

Brenae Brasil is a rising star at the most prestigious art school in the country, and her path to celebrity is all but assured. Until she is found dead on campus, just after completing a provocative documentary about female bodies, coercion, and self-defense.

Maggie Richter's return to LA and her job at the Rocque Museum was supposed to be about restarting her career and reconnecting with old friends. With mounting pressure to keep the museum open, the last thing she needs is to find herself at the center of another art world mystery. But when she uncovers a number of cryptic clues in Brasil's video work and investigates the artist's final days, Maggie begins playing a very dangerous game with some very influential people. And the closer she gets to the truth, the more lies she threatens to expose.

Maria Hummel, praised for her "genius for layering levels of meaning" (BBC), has brought us back to her provocative noir Los Angeles with this haunting investigation into power and the art world.

About Maria Hummel

Maria Hummel is a novelist and poet. Her novel Still Lives was a Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick, Book of the Month Club pick, and BBC Culture Best Book of 2018, and has been optioned for television and translated into multiple languages. She is also the author of Lesson in Red; Motherland, a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year; and House and Fire, winner of the APR/Honickman Poetry Prize. She has worked and taught at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Stanford University; and the University of Vermont. She lives in Vermont with her husband and sons.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christina

This follow-up to Still Lives, which I really enjoyed, continues to examine dynamics of power, fame, and talent in the art world. This time, a young and promising art student has killed herself - or was it murder? Comparing this latest novel and Still Lives as if they were paintings, Lesson in Red is......more

Goodreads review by Barbara

3.5 stars This review was first posted on Mystery and Suspense. Check it out for features, interviews, and reviews. [URL not allowed] Lesson in Red is the sequel to Still Lives, which focuses on 28-year-old Maggie Richter, a copy editor/publicist for the Rocque Museum in Los Ang......more

Goodreads review by Max

If you're interested in reading a mystery/thriller set in the artistic landscape of LA with a more experimental writing style, Lesson In Red could be for you. I'd recommend reading Still Lives first though, but I wouldn't say it's completely necessary. What I struggled with for Lesson In Red was tha......more

Goodreads review by David

This was an unfortunate title for me. I’ve seen my feelings mirrored in a lot of other reviews because there were two huge drawbacks to this title that made me feel lost and uninspired. 1. I did not read Still Lives, and the book did a poor job of bringing new readers up to speed. I understand books......more

Goodreads review by Literary

I was reminded of William Faulkner when I read Maria Hummel’s latest art world mystery, LESSON IN RED. Both use innovative but abstruse storytelling structures. Faulkner, with his unpunctuated stream-of-consciousness; Hummel, with a chaotic narrative that lacks timelines or clearly defined character......more