Audio Spotlight: Painting of Sorrow by Virginia Winters
/Narrator: Virginia Ferguson
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Publisher: Virginia Winters⎮2019
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Release date: Apr. 18, 2019
Synopsis: The painting and the woman, both hiding in plain sight. And a killer who targets both.
Sarah Downing, an art conservator hiding in witness protection, identifies a lost masterpiece by Caravaggio. History says it burned in WWII Berlin, but here it is, on her easel.
Someone betrays Sarah - an agent, a friend? Soon she is fighting to save the painting and herself.
What Sarah does next sends her from Kingston to Italy to rural Ontario in her desperate attempt to survive, save the Caravaggio and rebuild her life.
By the author of the exciting suspense series, Dangerous Journeys.
Virginia Winters is a writer and retired paediatrician who lives in Lindsay, Ontario. She was born in Arnprior, Ontario and educated at Queen's University.
Her first novel, Murderous Roots, was published by Cambridge Books, an imprint of Write Words Inc, of Cambridge, Maryland, USA.in 2008.
Four more novels in the Dangerous Journeys series followed:
The Facepainter Murders, 2009
No Motive for Murder, 2012
The Child on the Terrace, 2015
The Jewelled Egg Murders, 2017
The Ice Storm Murders is planned for summer 2019
Painting of Sorrow, the first book in a new series, A Deadly Art Mystery, appeared in 2018.
A Superior Crime and other stories, was published in 2018 as well.
She also writes short stories which have been published by various on-line and print publications. The latest, Rain, was published in Tales of the Mysterious, an anthology from Red Tuque Books, 2015. A short story, The Accounting, was published in Criminoil, Dark Stories from the Wood Buffalo from Carrick Publishing.
She is a member of the Canadian Author's Association, The Writer's Community of Durham Region, Writers Union of Canada
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About the Narrator: Virginia Ferguson
I work mostly on stage, soap operas, commercials, audio books, teaching English, English as a Second Language, Drama to high school students. For two decades, I lived in Sydney, working as a professional actor and teacher and since 2001 have mainly taught high school and attended Terence McGovern’s Actor’s Studio Workshop in San Francisco where I began recording audio books with acx.com using an American and English accent.