Maquette for Murder: A Martha Patterson Mystery (Martha Patterson Mysteries)

When retired attorney Martha Patterson's sculptor friend, Hannah Gold, is attacked, her assistant battered to death, and her latest sculpture destroyed, Martha plunges into the New York art world to find the culprit while threading her way through the jealousies and loyalties of a group of people for whom "the unusual is just usual." Martha Patterson and her accountant go to a party in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to celebrate the completion of a maquette, "a small-scale model of a large piece of art." Later that night, the maquette is destroyed, and the artist's new assistant is murdered