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"If you haven't yet discovered Martin Edwards' books, you are in for a treat...I am a huge fan!" - Louise Penny"I want you to solve my murder," said the woman in white.Rachel Savernake gave a sardonic smile. "Quite a challenge."The woman in white - surreal artist Damaris Gethin - has invited a select group to the opening of her exhibit "Artist in Crime," held in the eerie subterranean Hades Gallery. As costumed models reenact famously violent deaths, the artist herself portrays Marie Antoinette on the day of her execution, complete with a guillotine on the stage. It's not a prop; within ten minutes of Rachel's promise to solve Damaris's future murder, the artist slips her neck into the collar of the device and the very real blade sends her head rolling at the feet of her horrified audience.