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Aug 04, 2020LolaTony rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I enjoy the Milo Sturgis/Dr. Alex Delaware mysteries. Most are very strange and have a tangled web of suspects, evidence and other mysteries to unravel. This story revolves around a very strange tableau of murder found in a stretch limo by the person hired to clean an empty mansion that has been rented out for huge parties. The 'Museum of Desire' is supposed to be an old masters painting that was presumed stolen by the Nazis and is now in a private collection somewhere in the world. I googled the painting, but can't find any reference or article on that painting... The novel traces the routines, questions and methods used by law enforcement in their efforts to solve a crime. Like reality, some leads that look like the breakthrough they need fizzle to nothing when all the details are found and sorted. This book is a maze of people who are intertwined in strange and convoluted ways. Something that I found distracting in the story was the unrelated minutiae of the lives of the various characters.. Sometimes, I'm thinking that Mr. Kellerman is using 'filler' to make the required word count. That being said, it was still a very intriguing mystery. The takedown of the perpetrators was explosive and completely unexpected! It was still a very enjoyable read and it exercised the gray matter a bit.