A review by joc_tiger
Still Lives by Maria Hummel

4.0

I am a big fan of art books so I was really excited to read this one and I was even more excited when I realized it was a murder mystery. Although I found this book to be a little overly descriptive at some points, with some strange unnecessary characters involved, I really liked the central theme of the story. It really got me thinking about how women's bodies are often treated like art instead of actual bodies. The manipulation and destruction of a woman's body is frequently the center piece of famous art. I think this book does a really good job of addressing the fetishization of it all and turns the typical murder mystery on it's head.