ARTIST
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The city calls him a monster.
He calls himself an artist.
When bodies begin appearing across Ashthorne, posed like masterpieces and marked with cryptic symbols, veteran Detective Jameson and his partner Rodriguez are thrust into a nightmare unlike anything they've ever faced. Each victim is carefully chosen. Each crime scene tells a story. And each murder is only one piece of a much larger canvas.
Behind the killings is Adrian Blackwood-a brilliant, elusive predator shaped by a childhood of abuse, corruption, and secrets buried deep within the walls of the infamous Black Hollow Asylum. To Adrian, murder is more than violence. It is art. A message. A reckoning.
As the body count rises and the city descends into fear, Jameson finds himself pulled into a deadly game that feels disturbingly personal. The closer he gets to uncovering the truth, the more he realizes Adrian's obsession may be rooted in secrets from his own past.
But Adrian isn't just hunting victims anymore.
He's building something.
A masterpiece years in the making.
A final exhibition written in blood.
And when the curtain rises on Act Two, the entire city may become his canvas.
Artist is a dark psychological thriller filled with serial killers, twisted mysteries, shocking revelations, deadly cat-and-mouse games, and the terrifying question:
What happens when a monster believes he's the hero of the story?
Warning: Contains graphic violence, disturbing themes, psychological horror, and mature content.
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