Paint By Numbers; a Charles Bloom Murder Mystery - Hardcover

"From the gripping prologue to the twist-upon-twist conclusion, Mark Sublette's PAINT BY NUMBERS will keep you up nights... unable to stop turning the page!" - - Sandi Ault, best-selling author of the WILD Mystery Series "Mark Sublette's first novel is... marvelous. The white art dealer Charles Bloom lives in New Mexico with Indians. His impressive work is constantly taken away by those who go for nothing but money in New York. But Charles Bloom never stops in following great creativity... neither should we." - - Michael Blake, Dances with Wolves "A deadly mystery about art and ambition, stretching from Navajoland to New York." - - Wolf Schneider, abqARTS "This riveting art mystery, in the tradition of the late Tony Hillerman, successfully develops an intriguing tale that captures the essence of the creative spirit of the Navajo from the Toadlena region." - - Mark Winter, The Master Weavers and owner of the Historic Toadlena Trading Post Bloom's on Canyon Road, specializing in contemporary Native American art, once was a powerhouse gallery in Santa Fe. Then it lost its best-known artist, Willard Yellowhorse. Worse yet was Yellowhorse's premature death soon after arriving in New York City under very suspicious circumstances. With Yellowhorse's final painting STRUGGLE, about to be sold at auction, gallery owner Charles Bloom's inner voice keeps asking two unrelenting questions: how did Willard Yellowhorse really die, and who if anyone killed him? The answers for Charles lay somewhere deep inside the Navajo nation, Yellowhorse's ancestral home. Charles will need the help of Yellowhorse's sister, Rachael, and her grandfather, the nearly 100-year-old medicine man Hastiin Sherman, to unlock the key to Yellowhorse's death. What Charles Bloom doesn't realize is the evil coyote spirit that tracked down Yellowhorse is still watching and Charles could be next, if he isn't careful....