Everyone has something to hide, whether a criminal or the police detective on the job.  Anne Listrom's cases are usually successful, but they start revealing the things she wants hidden, or at least forgotten.

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Call it the money trilogy.  I began with the "pocket full of ones" and just kept it up.

As with the James Devonshire works, the Det. Listrom images were an attempt at producing a different "look" from the usual photo illustration that is so much in evidence on this site.  I'll admit freely that Listrom was prompted by a series of books that I began reading recently, concerning Detective Inspector Helen Grace of the Southampton Police, by M.J. Arlidge. 

I have no idea if Pittsburgh's Police Department has detectives that range over the entire municipality; that, too, is an inadvertant "lift" from the Helen Grace stories, and is probably a European "thing."  Chalk that up to my lack of research. 

The manner of illustration is not the same, but the cover designs by Colleen Reinhart on the Grace novels did spur me to try something else.  The author name was, I saw a little late, entirely too inspired, since the real author and my not-so-real author both use their initials.  Oops.  Apologies, Arlidge.

There is the additional urge to do something with the photographs I have of Pittsburgh.  I always take at least a few photos when I'm in the 'burgh, so I figured some of them may as well get some artistic use.