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Berkley Prime Crime
March 2004
368 pages ISBN: 0425195120 Hardcover (reprint)
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Mystery Historical
London, 1900: While Monet paints the wintry mists over the
Thames, the bodies of two young women are dragged from its
murky depths, arousing fears of a return of Jack the
Ripper... By now a celebrated and successful artist, Claude Monet
returns to London to paint his famous Thames series.
Nostalgic for his earlier visit in 1870, the old man busies
himself with a frenzy of creative activity. Little does he
know, however, that his haunting canvasses will act as a
backdrop to a series of savage killings. Oliver Craston, a
fledgling diplomat at the Foreign Office, happens to be
nearby when an unrecognizable body is pulled from the
Thames—and from then on, he's unwillingly drawn into the
police investigation. Meanwhile, with anti-French sentiment
running high in London, the Foreign Office wants Craston to
keep a close eye on M. Monet and his son, who are staying
at the Savoy Hotel. But none of the men knows that the
source of the horror—a horror beyond even the imagination
of an artist—stalks the floor above M. Monet's suite. Jane
Jakeman not only takes us into a fascinating historical era
with a compelling suspenseful story, but explores the human
drives toward creation and destruction—and the universal
struggle to understand the visions of each other's
seemingly alien souls.
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