Young Blood and Old Paint
Young Blood and Old Paint by William M Frank
291 Pages
Publisher: Terra Nova Books
Release Date: January 15, 2022
Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Traditional Detective Mysteries, Art Theft, New Mexico
Tom McNaul has been an FBI agent for twenty-five years. His current assignment is working with his partner Kate Bacon for the FBI art recovery unit. They are on a case in Boston to recover a Vermeer from the Isabella Gardner Stewart Museum art theft in 1995. The sting goes bad, people are shot—some wounded, some dead—and Tom gets the brunt of the blame. He is forced from the FBI and becomes a partner with his brother, Willie, in New Mexico. If Tom thought life would be easier and slower in the west, he was wrong especially when an Andy Warhol Campbell’s Tomato Soup print goes missing.
The book was fast paced, the characters were somewhat developed, and it was written in the third person point of view. I loved this story! The characters are all flawed and believable. At times I liked them then questioned why they were acting a certain way. The descriptions of the food made me hungry. This is Mr. Frank’s debut book and I look forward to reading many more. If you enjoy mysteries, especially with an art twist, or New Mexico, you will like this one.
