Comini, Alessandra: - Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, Alessandra Comini was awarded Austria's Grand Medal of Honor for her books on Viennese artists Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Her "Egon Schiele's Portraits" was nominated for the National Book Award and her "The Changing Image of Beethoven" is used in classrooms around the country, both now from Sunstone Press. Her travels, recorded in the memoir, "In Passionate Pursuit," extend from Europe to Antarctica and are reflected in this, her second mystery novel in the Megan Crespi Mystery Series. The other titles in the series, Killing for Klimt, The Kokoschka Capers, The Munch Murders, The Kollwitz Calamities, The Kandinsky Conundrum, The Mahler Mayhem, The Beethoven Boomerang, The Brahms Bust, and The Schumann Shaming, are also from Sunstone Press.