Still Lives

A Novel

By: Maria Hummel

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

A Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine on Audible Pick

"It's the ultimate mystery...The suspense will keep you up all night." (Reese Witherspoon)

Kim Lord is an avant garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the LA art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition, Still Lives, is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous murdered women - the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others - and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women.

As the city's richest art patrons pour into the Rocque Museum's opening night, all of the staff, including editor Maggie Richter, hope the event will be enough to save the historic institution's flailing finances. Except Kim Lord never shows up to her own gala. Fear mounts as the hours and days drag on and Lord remains missing. Suspicion falls upon the up-and-coming gallerist Greg Shaw Ferguson, who happens to be Maggie's ex. A rogue's gallery of eccentric art world figures could also have motive for the act, and as Maggie gets drawn into her own investigation of Lord's disappearance, she'll come to suspect all of those closest to her.

©2018 Maria Hummel (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Didn’t catch my attention

I barely caught myself paying attention with this book and the voice seemed a little too monotoned for me.

STILL LIVES.........

There were many times during this story that I just wanted to stop listening; I paid for it so I continued. It didn't have that WOW! factor that warrants me to want to know what happens next. I would NOT recommend this.

Captivated

I must say, I was turned off by the violence described about the artist’s work. However, I was more intrigued to keep listening and discover who committed the crime and why.
This book was well-written and had a very good narrator.

First Reese Witherspoon I didn’t love.

The story didn’t really go anywhere. It’s the first RWBC I didn’t love. Narrator was good.

Sheesh!

If you like books that are light on plot and extremely heavy on illustrative, descriptive inconsequential details, then this is for you!
It was not for me…