by John Littrell (Author)
Dr. Paul Seawright, an award-winning biographer and an acclaimed English professor, faces a second biography deadline. He struggles to write a single word. Unexpectedly, a famous Hollywood screenwriter offers Paul the opportunity to write the life story of the late Max Eicher, a Maya archaeologist. Paul travels from the frozen plains of Iowa to Casa Armadillo, seeking facts about Eicher in Mexico's jungles. Within hours of his arrival, Paul chances upon a man lying on a Maya sacrificial altar. The body is painted blue, and the heart cut out. Competing assignments pull Paul in two directions: locating biographical information about Eicher and searching for the victim's killer. One possible suspect is a cook who had nonchalantly carried the heart of the sacrificed man back to her kitchen. A second is Eicher's controlling widow, an infamous seductress whose next conquest is Paul. The third is an unscrupulous biographer whose previous books savaged the reputations of renowned archaeologists. As the victims pile up, Paul increasingly draws upon his analytic skills-especially after he awakes to find his own body painted blue. How soon will the killer try again?