title: The Fine Art of Murder: A Collection of Short Stories
author: Diana Catt
description: Editor and contributor, Brenda Robertson Stewart has been a professional painter, forensic artist, editor, and author. Her short stories have been published in <i>Derby Rotten Scoundrels, Power in the Blood, Low Down and Derby</i> and she has coedited <i>Racing Can Be Murder, Bedlam at the Brickyard,</i> and <i>Hoosier Hoops and Hijinks</i>. Brenda and Diana are both members of the Speed City Sisters in Crime.
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  Wren Valere looked at the body sprawled in the alleyway in front of her and
  wanted to throw up.
  
  
  Okay, she thought, dead body. Not your problem. All you have to do is go on
  past him, hand the painting over to the client, and the damn job's done. It
  was twenty feet, tops. All she had to do was keep walking down the alley,
  slide past the dark gre