

They begin to make connections between that summer in Switzerland and this spring in Louisiana. Wherever it goes, death seems to follow.ĭanielle Cafferty and Michael Quinn, occasional partners in solving crime, are quickly drawn into the case. Now, almost two hundred years later, the painting appears in New Orleans. The artist was a friend of Lord Byron and Mary Shelley, joining them in Switzerland during 1816, "the year without a summer." That was when they all explored themes of horror and depravity in their art. This painting is reputed to come to life-and to bring death.

In the case of Ghosts in the Mind by Henry Sebastian Hubert, that's more than just an expression. They say a painting can have a life of its own.
