Still Lives

“It’s a thrilling mystery that will leave you wondering which characters you can and can’t trust . . . There’s a twist at the end that still keeps us up at night, it's THAT good.” —Reese Witherspoon (A Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine Selection) A REESE'S BOOK CLUB x HELLO SUNSHINE Selection A BOOK OF THE MONTH Selection An Amazon Best Mystery/Thriller of the Year 1 of 22 New Books to Read This Summer (TIME) 1 of 20 New Books to Read in June (Entertainment Weekly) 1 of 5 Thrillers & Mysteries That Made Me Fall in Love with the Genre Again (Bustle) 1 of 30 Exciting New Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List (Buzzfeed) 1 of 9 New Books to Read this Month (The Guardian) 1 of 10 Books to Read in June (BBC Culture) 1 of the Best Summer Beach Reads of 2018 (The Daily Beast) 1 of 10 Crime Books to Read in June (CrimeReads) 1 of the Best Books of June 2018 (Refinery29) 1 of 25 New Thrillers You Need to Have on Your Radar This Summer (PopSugar) 1 of 9 Books We Can't Wait to Read in June (PureWow) 1 of 15 Books Coming Out . . . That You Don't Want to Miss (HelloGiggles) A Best New Book of June (Chicago Review of Books) 1 of 22 Books You Must Get Your Hands on this June (Women.com) 1 of 50 New Book Suggestions to Wow Your Book Club (PopSugar) 1 of My Top 5 Most Anticipated Reads of 2018 (PatienceRandle.com) 1 of 20 Favorite Reads of June 2018 (Read It Forward) 1 of Summer's Most Anticipated Crime, Mystery, and Thrillers (CrimeReads) A Perfect Book to Help You While Away the Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer (Watertown Daily Times) Read of the Week (Mag The Weekly) Praise for Still Lives “[A] mysterious page turner.” —TIME, 1 of 22 New Books to Read This Summer “Mystery and murder cloud this feminist story set in the heart of Los Angeles’ art scene. When an avant–garde artist goes missing on the day her groundbreaking exhibition opens, the story spins out in many provocative directions.” —Entertainment Weekly, 1 of 20 New Books to Read in June “It’s a thrilling mystery that will leave you wondering which characters you can and can’t trust . . . There’s a twist at the end that still keeps us up at night, it's THAT good.” —Reese Witherspoon (A Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine Selection) “A suspenseful, splashy story about fame, sex, and how our culture views women’s bodies . . . I also loved that it tackled the sticky subject of how women are portrayed in art, culture, and the media—and the consequences of those portrayals. This is a thrilling book, and a much–needed one. Read it and you’ll see what I mean.” —Book of the Month “[A] splendid art–world thriller . . . Ms. Hummel captures characters in a single stroke . . . Having herself worked in a museum, she speaks with authority of that sealed world . . . Still Lives is both savvy and lyrical—the perfect beach read for either coast.” —The Wall Street Journal “This is not only a satisfying mystery, but also an ambitious, intelligent and often uncomfortable study of gender, violence and art.” —The Guardian “Yet while Still Lives, evidently, has a heck of a hook to draw in a wide swath of readers, the book isn’t quite the escapist thriller the bones of the plot might indicate. Indeed, it’s a provocative book that digs deeply into art’s history of depicting women brutally and fetishistically, and that probes difficult questions about Western culture’s view and treatment of women’s bodies. It manages an impressive twofer: It sucks you into a compelling story, before forcing you to contem