If you want to derive the full measure of A Study in Red, the fourth novel by Connie Gault, start by familiarizing yourself with Edgar Degas painting, Combing the Hair. Colloquially dubbed the big red monster, for its mesmerizing use of a colour saturated in meaning passion, love, danger, violence it inflames a deceptively simple, domesticated but searing image, a young woman having her hair brushed by an older woman. Read More