A Feast of Small Surprises – $12.00 plus shipping

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Art and literature feed our soul, our desire for community, our need to find a greater meaning in life. From deep in our cultural subconscious the artist, the author seeks those connections between personal experiences and the primordial—that which is shared by us all—and creates a work that speaks on a level unique to each of us. To those of you who have experienced the thrill of such moments, I offer my novel. May it encourage your own adventure and enliven your sense of connection with life’s splendors, both sublime and mundane.

About the book:

It’s the summer of 1992 and a painting by the great seventeenth century Italian artist, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, is discovered in the basement of a church in Messina, Italy. Is it an original painting lost over the centuries or is it a fake? The night of the opening of the exhibition of the painting in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, there’s a car bombing involving an artist and his dealer. A sinister Russian, a mime, an art forger and two American ladies are all in Florence when the car explodes. Who is responsible and is the bomb connected to the discovery of the painting? Twists in the plot keep the surprises coming until the end.

I am available for readings for book clubs and bookstores.