Shot in Detroit (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781940610825)

Nominated for the Edgar Award and the Anthony Award

Violet Hart is a photographer who has always returned to cobble out a life for herself in the oddly womblike interiors of Detroit. Nearing forty, she's keenly aware that the time for artistic recognition is running out. When her lover, Bill, a Detroit mortician, needs a photograph of a body, she agrees to takes the picture. It's an artistic success and Violet is energized by the subject matter, persuading Bill to allow her to take pictures of some of his other "clients," eventually settling on photographing young, black men.

When Violet's new portfolio is launched, she quickly strikes a deal, agreeing to produce a dozen pictures with a short deadline, confident because dead bodies are commonplace in Detroit and she has access to the city's most prominent mortician. These demands soon place Violet in the position of having to strain to meet her quota.

As time runs out, how will Violet come up with enough subjects to photograph without losing her soul or her life in the process? A riveting novel of psychological suspense, Patricia Abbott continues to cement herself as one of our very best writers of the darkness that lies within the human heart.


Author: Patricia Abbott
ISBN-10: 1940610826
ISBN-13: 9781940610825
Publisher: Polis Books
Language: English
Published: 06/14/2016
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/18/2016
Booklist 05/01/2016 pg. 37
Library Journal 06/15/2016 pg. 63