About the book: 2022 / Young illustrator Gregory Boyle dreams of becoming an internationally recognized artist. And life gave him a chance, turning the creator into a murderer, and evidence of a crime into his first masterpiece. Gregory accidentally takes the life of a robber who has broken into the house, whose blood falls in a hypnotic pattern on the canvas. The dead man takes up residence in the artist’s head and pushes him to continue new experiments - until an eccentric private detective with a dark past gets on the trail of the killer. In search of new sources of inspiration, the main character, tormented by nightmares, gradually slides into the seething abyss of madness... Editor's comment: Cold as a razor blade, indifferent as the barrel of a pistol, making the soul tremble like any bladed weapon - there is no better way to describe the novel "The First Masterpiece" , whose name speaks for itself. Contains obscene language