Whistling Artist
After Deborah Evenson's death, her paintings are gathered for a retrospective showing at a Duluth art museum. During the opening night gala, the museum discovers that two of the paintings, previously displayed separately, were created as a diptych/mural. Close inspection of the complicated pieces reveals hidden images hinting at the rocky relationship between Evenson and her rich benefactor.

Peter Rogers, the Whistling Pines Recreation Director, is dragged into a controversy when a local art studio hosts a drawing class for a group of his residents. Moving from drawings of fruit, the class shifts to nudes, a decision that brings a group of protesters to the studio. The slightly inebriated art instructor confronts the religious protesters, spritzing them with booze.

To avoid the unfolding protest, Peter takes the art class to the Duluth art museum where they discover another hidden image in Evenson's mural. Does this image explain the disappearance of an art professor who'd been posing for Evenson, or is it just a feature in the abstract painting?

Editorial reviews
"I know the stories in this book will give me at least one laugh a page." D.J.W.
"A great read that's easy to pick up and hard to put down." A.P.
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Whistling Artist
After Deborah Evenson's death, her paintings are gathered for a retrospective showing at a Duluth art museum. During the opening night gala, the museum discovers that two of the paintings, previously displayed separately, were created as a diptych/mural. Close inspection of the complicated pieces reveals hidden images hinting at the rocky relationship between Evenson and her rich benefactor.

Peter Rogers, the Whistling Pines Recreation Director, is dragged into a controversy when a local art studio hosts a drawing class for a group of his residents. Moving from drawings of fruit, the class shifts to nudes, a decision that brings a group of protesters to the studio. The slightly inebriated art instructor confronts the religious protesters, spritzing them with booze.

To avoid the unfolding protest, Peter takes the art class to the Duluth art museum where they discover another hidden image in Evenson's mural. Does this image explain the disappearance of an art professor who'd been posing for Evenson, or is it just a feature in the abstract painting?

Editorial reviews
"I know the stories in this book will give me at least one laugh a page." D.J.W.
"A great read that's easy to pick up and hard to put down." A.P.
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Whistling Artist

Whistling Artist

by Dean L. Hovey
Whistling Artist

Whistling Artist

by Dean L. Hovey

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Overview

After Deborah Evenson's death, her paintings are gathered for a retrospective showing at a Duluth art museum. During the opening night gala, the museum discovers that two of the paintings, previously displayed separately, were created as a diptych/mural. Close inspection of the complicated pieces reveals hidden images hinting at the rocky relationship between Evenson and her rich benefactor.

Peter Rogers, the Whistling Pines Recreation Director, is dragged into a controversy when a local art studio hosts a drawing class for a group of his residents. Moving from drawings of fruit, the class shifts to nudes, a decision that brings a group of protesters to the studio. The slightly inebriated art instructor confronts the religious protesters, spritzing them with booze.

To avoid the unfolding protest, Peter takes the art class to the Duluth art museum where they discover another hidden image in Evenson's mural. Does this image explain the disappearance of an art professor who'd been posing for Evenson, or is it just a feature in the abstract painting?

Editorial reviews
"I know the stories in this book will give me at least one laugh a page." D.J.W.
"A great read that's easy to pick up and hard to put down." A.P.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780228623816
Publisher: BWL Publishing
Publication date: 09/25/2022
Series: Whistling Pines , #7
Pages: 326
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Dean Hovey is a Minnesota-based author with three mystery series. He lives with his wife south of Duluth.

Dean’s award-winning* Pine County series follows sheriff’s deputies Floyd Swenson and Pam Ryan through this police procedural series.

Dean’s Whistling Pines books are humorous cozy mysteries centered on the residents of the Whistling Pines senior residence. The protagonist is Peter Rogers, the Whistling Pines recreation director.

In Dean’s latest series his protagonist, a retired Minnesota policeman, is drafted into service as a National Park Service Investigator after a murder at a National Monument.

* “Family Trees: A Pine County Mystery” won the 2018 NEMBA award for best fiction.
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