When artist, Nicole Jeffords, learns that a reputable psychic who often works with the police has had a vision that the remains of a fifty-year-old male may be buried under an artist's studio in Austin, she becomes convinced that the studio in quest...
4) One of those things was that she was African American and not Jewish, as she had all along claimed.
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Betsy's biological mother, Loraine
5) Victor's portrait was stolen off a transport truck after it had been exhibited at Art Basel, Miami. One of the truck's crew, Charlie Diaz, was found dead in a swamp a few days later.
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Victor (Nicole Jeffords, Oil on Canvas, 2016)
6) Victor's father, Leonard, was run over by a car on a busy Paris street. Was it murder or an accident?
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Leonard
7) Leonard had been in possession of the 'Bukh,' a bible or holy grail of medical remedies passed down in his family for generations and worth a fortune.
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8) To know the current whereabouts of the Bukh would no doubt answer a lot of questions about Victor. Emil Shusterman, who was Victor's therapist, is the one person who might have that knowledge.
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Emil (Nicole Jeffords, Oil on Canvas, 2016)
9) There is what could be a conspiracy theory floating around that a mounting number of alternative medical practitioners have disappeared or been found murdered.
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I'm sure I left important things off that list, but it's a starting point. Alicia's plan to find her attacker of many years ago has nothing to do with Victor's disappearance, and yet it's something I'd like to explore because the story is rich and interesting, and also, I suspect, has cultural parallels to what is going on politically in this country. It would be good for me to follow up with Josiah and also with Helen Sprouse, Victor's former assistant. I should also probably spend a little time researching some of the lawsuits against Victor. Whew! Just thinking aloud here. Where to begin?
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Well, one place is with Ramona, my housekeeper, who just as we speak came knocking on my studio door with something important to tell me.
