THE SYMBOLIST
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Contenu pour adultesTerminé dim., juil. 27, 20251 h 27 min
Everyone knows Ivy Langston.
The soft-spoken artist. The woman with the wineglass smile and paint-stained hands. Her gallery is the heart of the city's art scene - hauntingly beautiful, rich with symbolism, and always a little hard to explain.
What they don't know?
Ten of her most admired paintings are tributes to the people she's killed.
No faces, no names - just symbols. A zodiac sign here, a birth flower there. A celestial body hidden beneath the brushstrokes. Her art isn't confession. It's ritual.
And the police? Still staring at footprints while the evidence hangs on gallery walls.
But things are starting to unravel.
An admirer gets too close.
A detective starts asking better questions.
And Ivy's next painting? It might not be about a stranger at all.
The Symbolist is a slow-burn psychological thriller told through shifting POVs - Ivy, the detective on her trail, and the author who knows she's lying.
It's art. It's murder.
And it's all perfectly framed.
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