The Girl with the Botticelli Eyes
By: Herbert Lieberman
Mark Manship is a buyer for a museum. He is sent on an unusual errand, to find the decendent of the original model for Botticelli's paintings, for the promotion of Botticelli's paintings at the museum. Meanwhile a strange man is slashing the eyes out of Botticelli's paintings all over the world. When Manship finds people dying all around him there eyes missing, he realizes that there is more to this errand than he signed up for.
Exerpt:
"Torso of Unidentified Woman Found in Tiber
The body of a young woman between the ages of thirty and thirty-five was discovered by fishermen in the Tiber today. In the vicinity of the Hospital de la Infanta, the body was naked and appeared to have been dead several days.
Pathologists are checking local dentists for charts in an attempt to make a positive identification. 'It's not unusual for bodies to be found in the river,' said Chief Inspector Mario Buonofaccio. Unusual in this case was the fact that the eyes of the young woman had been excised from the skull, making this the sixth such cadaver to be dicovered over the past twenty-four months. All have exhibited the same disfigurement..."
More Info:
Type of Book: Murder mystery with a madman serial killer twist
Setting: Italy and other art sights in Europe
Rating: R
Length: 356 pages
My Opinion: This story begins innocently enough, but as you reach the end don't read it in the dark. There are just things that are inhuman and this book details one of these. Read at your own risk!!! This book is very good, but very twisted.