This one has been highly sought after by book clubs recently! We have copies to loan, including audio and large print editions. The group will meet on
Wednesday January 15th at 1pm by the fireplace as usual. Join us!
On March 18, 1990,
thirteen works of art today worth over $500 million were stolen from the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest
unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young
artist, is about to discover that there’s more to this crime than meets
the eye.
Making a living reproducing famous artworks for a
popular online retailer and desperate to improve her situation, Claire
is lured into a Faustian bargain with Aiden Markel, a powerful gallery
owner. She agrees to forge a painting—a Degas masterpiece stolen from
the Gardner Museum—in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned
gallery. But when that very same long-missing Degas painting is
delivered to Claire’s studio, she begins to suspect that it may itself
be a forgery.Her desperate search for the truth leads Claire
into a labyrinth of deceit where secrets hidden since the late
nineteenth century may be the only evidence that can now save her life. --goodreads.com
