This is awesome. It's a mystery, but it's also not a mystery at all. Addison is a hot-to-trot artist everyone wants a piece of, but that's the problem in and of itself. When she dies under mysterious circumstances, everyone wants to tell their side of her story and everyone wants to point fingers at the other people in her life.

But Addison had a number of her own problems, including, but not limited to, the pressure of being a young and upcoming female artist,

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being haunted by ghosts and by her mental illness

, by being torn between relationships she does/not want to pursue, and more. She's built this identity, but can she maintain it? Does she want to? Who is the performance for, herself or for others?

We don't get Addison's voice much in the story. We get her voices through other people's filtered and biased lenses. We see greed and we see what looks like genuine care and concern -- and we also see where there is and is not follow through on each.

The art in the book tells the story as much as the interviews as part of the investigation do. It's a neat and effective use of mixed media, as we see the allure and pull of Addison right along with those owning a piece of a story that

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ultimately isn't one that's theirs to tell

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This one's a winner. Longer review to come!