Dead Shot: Annie Solomon

Critics call them provocative. Protesters call them obscene. But photographer Gillian Gray aims her macabre self-portraits at an audience of the one – the faceless brute who murdered her supermodel mother. Their meaning is clear: “Come and get me.”

And someone’s getting the message. Dead bodies start turning up in Nashville, posed to mimic Gillian’s photos. Against her will, Gillian is guarded by tough ex-cop Ray Pearce, a man whose commitment to the job is as strong as his belief that Gillian is in real danger. Yet his protection may not be enough to stop a vicious madman from creating his next masterpiece: a portrait of the artist as a young corpse.

Gillian Gray is your typical spoiled rich girl with issues. The impression that I got from her is that she is above everyone and cannot be touched even though she is trying so hard to get the man that killed her mother to come after her. She is a petite 115 lbs. and she can’t even act like a grown up, yet she thinks that she can take this man. She puts on a tough act with everyone including her bodyguard. She tends to not listen to what anyone is trying to do to help her. Her best friend/assistant is no help with this either because she more or less instigates what Gillian is doing and does not try to stop her.

Gillian’s grandparents, Genevra and Chip, try their best to do what is right for their grand-daughter to keep her safe and hire a bodyguard, Ray Pearce. Unfortunately, Ray Pearce has issues of his own. He is an ex-cop still living in Nashville where his ex-wife and family reside and can’t seem to break away even though his ex-wife has re-married and started a family with her new husband.

Guarding Gillian has been a hassle for Ray but he has grown on her and has started to develop feelings for this woman. It turns out that Gillian has also developed feelings for Ray which comes out when a fight at a hideout evolves into something more.

When Gillian comes back to town, three more murders occur and each murder is setup as one of Gillian’s photos, using the same layouts. The town is starting to think that Gillian is the cause of all this and wants to have the museum shut down her exhibit. Gillian agrees to withdraw all her work before the board can vote. She even decides to back out of the hospital’s charity auction but with a little help from the police department and Ray’s ex-brother in-law, James, they decide that it would be best for Gillian to go to the charity auction to try to lure in the killer.

The killer is lured in but not at the charity auction!

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Publisher: Warner Forever; hardcover edition (March 1, 2007)
ISBN: 044661632X
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