THE BLIND PAINTER

When acclaimed composer Silas Doendel is found dead in his secluded studio in the mountains of Rio Grande do Sul—his retinas surgically cauterized by a high-intensity beam of light and a single paintbrush driven into his chest—suspicion immediately falls upon his wife, Clotilde. An internationally renowned avant-garde painter, Clotilde was in the antechamber, painting the same all-black canvas ove...