I love Sigrid Harald. such a wonderful story. Such vibrant characters and a theme of art. ( )

I believe this was meant to be the final entry in Maron's Sigrid Harald series; the cover actually calls it "the eighth and final book". But looking at my catalog I see there is one more, published several years later (and not counting the two books in which Deborah Knott and Sigrid appear together). In this one, Sigrid is coping with a personal loss, while helping investigate the murder of an art dealer in her lover's apartment. The art world isn't a very pleasant place, if this book gives any kind of true representation of it, and I didn't much enjoy spending time with the people involved in the pertinent shenanigans. But I have come to like Sigrid as she has loosened up a bit through the series, her housemate is a delight, and some of the other detectives are interesting characters with their own story lines as well. Once the murder occurred, things got more interesting, and I had a notion (wrong, as usual) about whodunnit. For completion, and because it is on my shelf already, I'll go on to finish the series by reading Take Out. I think, though, that if I didn't have it on hand, I might skip it, as Sigrid is left in a pretty good place at the end of Fugitive Colors; I have read the two Deborah Knott books in which she appears (which take place after FC in their world); AND Take Out gets lukewarm to rotten reviews, albeit mostly from readers who admit to not having read the rest of the series. I'll just decide for myself, shall I? ( )

Good addition to the Sigrid Harald mystery series. ( )

I haven't read any of the other books in this series, so I'm not sure why I would buy a copy of this book for my bookshelf. But there it sat - answering a need for a certain title in a challenge I thought I'd enter but never got around to. And once this made it into my short stack, I decided to have a go.

And I was pleasantly surprised. Sigrid is a real woman, not a superwoman. A woman of a certain age. A woman whose private life isn't rosily romantic. And the mystery was good. I enjoyed the NYC setting which surprised me, I guess because of the cover art.

This may well be a series that I continue - but from #1. ( )

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