In a True Light: A Novel of Crime by Perseus

Summoned to the deathbed of celebrated painter Jane Graham, Sloane, an unsuccessful but talented artist just out of prison where he served two years for art forgery, discovers that a long-ago love affair had resulted in a child, but when he searches for his long-lost daughter, he suddenly finds himself embroiled in a web of criminal violence, police investigations, dangerous alliances, and murder. Reprint.