LAST PORTRAIT
About this audiobook
Every masterpiece begins with a blank canvas.
Every murder ends with one.
When world-famous art collector Julian Mercer is found dead inside his private gallery, investigators discover a breathtaking oil portrait drying beside the body. The painting captures Julian's face with impossible realism—except for one chilling detail.
His eyes are closed.
Days later, another collector dies.
Another portrait appears.
Another pair of closed eyes.
Soon the FBI uncovers a horrifying pattern. Every victim secretly financed a decades-old human trafficking operation hidden behind elite art auctions. Someone is hunting them one by one, immortalizing each death as a flawless work of art.
Behavioral profiler Emma Lawson goes undercover in the exclusive world of international galleries, museums, and private collectors. To understand the killer's artistic obsession, she consults Gabriel Voss, a legendary portrait painter imprisoned years earlier after orchestrating a series of murders that turned his victims into living sculptures.
Gabriel claims the new killer is not copying him.
He's correcting his mistakes.
As Emma follows a trail of hidden brushstrokes, coded pigments, and paintings that conceal forgotten crimes beneath their layers, she discovers the final canvas has already been prepared.
It isn't hanging in a museum.
It's waiting for her.
A gripping psychological thriller filled with art, deception, and moral ambiguity, LAST PORTRAIT asks one haunting question:
Can beauty ever erase evil?
