The Katherine Pride Gallery is the center of high art and low death in Pride and Perilous, book II of the Pride Trilogy and the second of the Kyle Callahan Mysteries. Kyle, an amateur photographer, is about to have his first exhibit at the gallery, in Manhattan's Meatpacking District. As time ticks away, bodies begin to fall and Kyle realizes somebody wants this gallery closed forever. Join the chase as Kyle and his partner Danny Durban reunite with Detective Linda Sikorsky from the New Hope, PA, police force. They met solving the murders at Pride Lodge, and Linda has come to town for Kyle's opening, only to find herself joining forces with him again to capture a killer ... before he captures them.
Mark McNease has been writing since childhood. He has had six plays produced and numerous short stories published. He spent nine years in children's television, three of them as the story editor for foreign co-productions of Sesame Street. Subsequently he co-created and wrote a television show for children aged 9-12 that won an Emmy in 2001 for Outstanding Children's Program. He lives in New York City with his partner Frank and their three cats, with a second home in rural New Jersey.