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    Toros and Torsos
    Toros and Torsos
    Toros and Torsos
    Audiobook10 hours

    Toros and Torsos

    Written by Craig McDonald

    Narrated by Tom Stechschulte

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    About this audiobook

    Edgar Award finalist Craig McDonald blends art, murder, and a touch of noir in this thriller set in 1935. Hector Lassiter is a gutsy crime writer who believes in the "write what you live and live what you write" mantra. Then Hector learns of another artist who follows this method--a serial killer who takes inspiration from art, leaving his victims in bloody vignettes of surrealist paintings. When a woman Hector knows becomes the latest work of art, he vows to stop the sadistic artist.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 28, 2009
    ISBN9781440760396
    Toros and Torsos

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    • 4/5
      This is the second Hector Lassiter book by Craig McDonald, but the books aren’t necessarily written as a series (I believe I could have read this one without having read “Head Games” (his Edgar Award nominated book for best first novel)).Hector and his buddy Ernest Hemingway begin this tale in the artists’ haven of Key West, Florida in the 1930’s, but someone has a slightly different aesthetic vision. Instead of creating unique works of art on canvas, bodies are being left around the island, murdered and then “altered” to depict known works of Surrealism. As the murders move from Florida to Mexico to Spain and then back to Florida, their frequency and their proximity to Lassiter keep the narrative moving.The inclusion of the art references made this a fairly interesting read, and it’s what primarily drew me to the book (I waited to read it until I finished Head Games, though, and again feel that was probably not necessary). Admittedly, this is not a genre I frequent, but at the risk of sounding judgmental, I felt this one was more “intellectual” than other similar reads. References to Man Ray, the surrealist movement, political conditions in Spain, etc. were all well written, and they added another level to the story.Overall, I liked “Toros and Torsos” better than “Head Games”. The one drawback is that it’s a little more gruesome than Head Games. While the level of detail in the descriptions of the deaths provide the imagery necessary for the reader to envision the Surrealistic representation, some of the graphic nature seemed a little gratuitous and, had it been scaled back a little, I likely would have given it a slightly higher rating.