Amazon Johnmaceachern.com Category:  Action/Thriller Publisher: Book Baby ISBN-10:  1483551962 Type: Fiction Pages: 334 Copyright: May 2, 2015 ISBN-13: 9781483551968 Price: $6.50 (eBook) Young Tom adams finds america's most popular philanthropist murdered in the office of his gallery, home of the country's finest art. Meanwhile, the New York Mob is fencing stolen Art to the most powerful people in the world.  When young, Appalachian born, Tom Adams finds an American masterpiece between the walls of an old farmhouse, he takes it to the nation's formost public art gallery - The Greighton Gallery of American Impressionism-for an appraisal. What he finds is the murdered corpse of the gallery's founder, Robert Creighton. Tom is immediately taken in for questioning and charged with the murdder. If that wasn't enough, his potentially priceless work of art has gone missing. Meanwhile, Maunders, a disfigured, handicapped loner, living  in a one room flat in the Lower East side of Manhatten finds himself fencing stolen art for the New York mob to the wealthiest and most powerful leaders of the world. These works also find their way into the collections of the most unscrupulous members of the U.S. administration. The Blood of Art is an intertwining thriller, weaving together the world of fine art, government corruption, and N.Y. organized crime - painting a picture of....MURDER!

The Blood of Art
Book Review
Reviewed by Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite

Murder and mayhem all over works of art? Well, it does happen and priceless artworks are often the target of money-hungry thieves. Blood splattered all over a upscale art gallery was certainly more than Tom Adams, an ordinary waiter who was slowly working his way from the bottom up, expected when he walked into the Creighton American Collection of Art and discovered its curator and founder, Mr. Creighton, bludgeoned to death. All Tom wanted was an assessment on a painting that he had discovered behind the drywall of a house he was renovating. What he found was a dead man and blood everywhere.

Tom's painting, if it turned out to be what Mr. Creighton had suggested it might be when they had talked earlier on the phone, would be the means for Tom to improve his lot in life and follow his dream to own his own restaurant. In the confusion of the investigation immediately following the murder, Tom's painting disappears as well as a painting that had hung in Mr. Creighton's office. The Creighton murder would have been enough of a mystery to solve, but there were other evil doings at play, more murders and art thefts, all including powerful people, both in government, in royalty and in the mob. To add complexity to the case, Tom is accused of the murder and browbeaten severely by the arresting cop.

Mr. John A. MacEachern has written an exciting murder mystery in The Blood of Art. After a slow beginning, this turned out to be a real page turner with multiple back stories and plot lines interwoven with excellent descriptive passages. A great read!


Amazon
John MacEachern has done well in writing a crime novel with an
interesting
plot and well-developed characters, but where this novel really pleases
is
in his perfect reconstruction of late 1960s America, with all its issues
and atmosphere. The more exotic settings are also fun, but to me that's
where the novel really shines, as well as in the very interesting plot
thread about the art world. There's plenty of suspense and lots of
romance
as well. A really solid novel that crime fiction fans shouldn't miss.