Morris Duckworth has a dark past. Having married and murdered his
way into a wealthy Italian family, he has become a respected member
of Veronese business life. But it's not enough. Never satisfied
with being anything short of the best, he comes up with a plan to
put on the most exciting art exhibition of the decade, based on a
subject close to his heart: killing. All the great slaughters of
scripture and classical times will be on show, from Cain and Abel,
to Brutus and Caesar. But as Morris meets stiff resistance from the
director of Verona's Castelvecchio museum, everything starts to
unravel around him. His children are rebelling, his mistress is
asking for more than he wants to give, his wife is increasingly
attached to her aging confessor, and, worst of all, it's getting
harder and harder to ignore the ghosts that swirl around him, and
the skeletons rattling in every closet. The shame of it is that
Morris Arthur Duckworth really did not want to have to kill again.
Tim Parks' acclaimed Duckworth trilogy has been thirty years in the
making. In Painting Death, he brings it--and his serial-killer
alter ego--to a very fitting--and very funny--end. Skyhorse
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