Fugitive Colors

This is the final mystery in Maron's Sigrid Harald saga. Sigrid is a NYC police detective who is a wonderful character. She grows and develops through out each story and I will miss her. I have read the series several times.

The last Sigrod Harald mystery by Margaret Maron, published in 1995, and I discover it 20 years later. Policewoman Sigrid is devasted by the death of her famous artist lover, but recovers when murders occur in the NYC art world her inhabited. Just my cut of tea, although a bit dated now.

Synopsis: Sigrid has been made the executor of Oscar's estate and she doesn't want to deal with it. However, one of the people involved is killed and she has to help discover why. There are several people who have motives and none of them seem likely, so what about the people who have no

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motive?
Review: I thought I knew 'who done it' but I didn't. I hate it that Oscar was killed off.

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This novel opens with Sigrid Harald suffering a form of depression because of the death of her lover, famous artist, Oscar Nauman in an auto accident months earlier. She has been on leave from her job as a homicide detective in the NYPD. Nauman's will leaves his huge fortune including paintings to

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her and there are many demands on her to continue with art show he was planning.

Her new found wealth is going to be an issue in her succeeding novels. In this novel, she gains back her confidence that Oscar had instilled in her and she now dresses well and uses makeup so there is a new Sigrid in the department.

A very famous art dealer WW II war hero from Italy is in New York to receive an honour from a major patron of the arts for his efforts to save important Italian art from the grasp of the Nazis. It all revolves around a painting of a Madonna he kept claiming it was a minor work when it was really that of an major artist whose works had been destroyed bu bombs in WW II. This leads to murder and Sigrid and her team work feverishly to solve it.

The new Sigrid is still brash and blunt.

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Sigrid Harald's character grows color and complexity as she recovers from

I haven't read any of the other books in this series, so I'm not sure why I would buy a copy of this book for my bookshelf. But there it sat - answering a need for a certain title in a challenge I thought I'd enter but never got around to. And once this made it into my short stack, I decided to

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have a go.

And I was pleasantly surprised. Sigrid is a real woman, not a superwoman. A woman of a certain age. A woman whose private life isn't rosily romantic. And the mystery was good. I enjoyed the NYC setting which surprised me, I guess because of the cover art.

This may well be a series that I continue - but from #1.

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Good addition to the Sigrid Harald mystery series.

I believe this was meant to be the final entry in Maron's Sigrid Harald series; the cover actually calls it "the eighth and final book". But looking at my catalog I see there is one more, published several years later (and not counting the two books in which Deborah Knott and Sigrid appear

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together). In this one, Sigrid is coping with a personal loss, while helping investigate the murder of an art dealer in her lover's apartment. The art world isn't a very pleasant place, if this book gives any kind of true representation of it, and I didn't much enjoy spending time with the people involved in the pertinent shenanigans. But I have come to like Sigrid as she has loosened up a bit through the series, her housemate is a delight, and some of the other detectives are interesting characters with their own story lines as well. Once the murder occurred, things got more interesting, and I had a notion (wrong, as usual) about whodunnit. For completion, and because it is on my shelf already, I'll go on to finish the series by reading Take Out. I think, though, that if I didn't have it on hand, I might skip it, as Sigrid is left in a pretty good place at the end of Fugitive Colors; I have read the two Deborah Knott books in which she appears (which take place after FC in their world); AND Take Out gets lukewarm to rotten reviews, albeit mostly from readers who admit to not having read the rest of the series. I'll just decide for myself, shall I?

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I love Sigrid Harald. such a wonderful story. Such vibrant characters and a theme of art.