An uncompromising investigator is out for revenge after his friends are murdered by a dead man. The Art of Obsession is a fast-paced and edgy fresh take on literary crime fiction, offering a cast of distinct and colorful characters in contentious pursuit of a dead artist's dark and irresistible secret. Arriving to find his friends trapped in a raging fire, hardnosed New York insurance investigator Van Hazard rushes into the blaze but can only rescue a young stranger telling a bizarre tale alleging a famed artist came back from the dead through his living paintings to commit murder. Determined to learn the truth, Hazard searches for paintings suspiciously missing from the collection of one of the deceased that could hold the key to what really happened. Aided by his fearlessly free-spirited partner, Kyoko Dunne, and driven by guilt, a host of private demons, and a festering brood of old scores, Hazard's unyielding probe uncovers a murderous trail of deception and betrayal as he races to prevent a rival's descent into twisted obsession.