Automat - stephanie kane

Who is the enigmatic woman in Edward Hoppers famous painting, Automat? When the young actress playing her is brutally murdered at the launch of The Denver Art Museums blockbuster Hopper exhibition, Conservator of Paintings Lily Sparks feels compelled to use her special gift of discernment to solve the crime.

Her perfect eye tells her that just as the celebrated artist kept painting the same iconic woman, the killer must keep killing her.

The stony blonde in Hoppers paintings never aged.

As Lilys hunt takes her from the artists early years in Paris to her own museums exhibition to the theatrical company bringing the paintings to life, she realizes the man in Hoppers paintings also holds clues to the killers identity.

Is stepping into a painting herself the only way Lily can stop him? Automat is Stephanie Kanes second crime novel set in the art world and featuring Lily Sparks.

It follows A Perfect Eye.