‘Maestra,’ A Conversation with L.S. Hilton

L.S. Hilton grew up in England and has lived in Key West, New York City, Paris and Milan. After graduating from Oxford, she studied art history in Paris and Florence. She has worked as a journalist, art critic, and broadcaster.

Her debut novel and the first in a trilogy, Maestra, is a psychological thriller about Judith Rashleigh, an assistant at a London art gallery. By night, she’s a hostess at a champagne bar and is familiar with the ways of the wealthy. When she’s fired from her art galle...