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Thursday, July 02, 2015

New Indie Book Release: The Blood of Art (John A. MacEachern)


New Indie Book Release:
The Blood of Art - John A. MacEachern
Murder Mystery (340 pages - March 2015)

The Blood of Art exposes the seamy side of fine art and covers all aspects of greed and government corruption from current times and dating as far back as the art stolen from the Jews during the second world war.

About the Book

The Blood of Art (John A. MacEachern)
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When young, Appalachian born, Tom Adams, finds an American masterpiece between the walls of an old farmhouse, he is renovating in Riverport Massachusetts, he takes it to America’s foremost public art gallery: the Creighton American Gallery of American Impressionism, for an appraisal. What he finds is the murdered corpse of America’s favorite philanthropist and gallery founder, Robert Creighton. Tom is immediately taken in for questioning and charged with the murder and his found work of art is stolen while he is at the police station.

Meanwhile, Maunders, a disfigured and slightly handicapped loner living in a second floor, one room flat in the Lower East Side of Manhattan finds himself fencing stolen fine art for the New York Mafia to the most wealthy and powerful leaders of the world. Some of these works also find their way into the collections of the most unscrupulous senior members of the U.S. administration.

“The Blood of Art” is an international thriller having two plots intertwined which come together painting a picture of ...murder.






About the Author

Author John A. MacEachern
Author John A. MacEachern
John A. MacEachern was raised in the small farming community of Kleinburg, Ontario, well known for being the home of the famous McMichael Canadian Collection of Art and the works of the Group of Seven. He graduated from The School of Hotel and Restaurant Administration at Cornell University and spent most of his career in the hospitality industry, namely with Canadian Pacific Hotels, until he went out on his own and ended up owning and operating two of Canada’s finest country restaurants: The Doctor’s House, in his hometown of Kleinburg and the Captain’s House in Chester, Nova Scotia.

Upon retirement he took up art; namely Watercolors and Egg Tempera and writing. John has written many short stories, a number of which have been published. The Blood of Art is John’s follow up novel to his first: The Hat Trick Murders.

John and his wife Barbara live in Middleton, Nova Scotia. They have four children and five grandchildren.


Connect with John A. MacEachern via the Author's Website
and on Twitter: @john_maceachern


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