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A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
by Edward Dolnick
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by Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi
Published Nov 2022
Read ReviewsThe world's most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters - exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio.
by Jonathan Santlofer
Published Aug 2021
Read ReviewsA gripping novel exploring the Mona Lisa's very real theft in 1911 and the present underbelly of the art world, The Last Mona Lisa is a suspenseful tale, tapping into our universal fascination with da Vinci's enigma, why people are driven to possess certain works of art, and our fascination with the authentic and the fake.
by Laura Cumming
Published Nov 2016
Read ReviewsFrom one of the world's most expert art critics, the incredible true story - part art history and part mystery - of a Velázquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it.
by Maximillian Potter
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsJournalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romanée-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine.
by Donna Tartt
Published Apr 2015
Read ReviewsComposed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America; a story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the enormous power of art.
by B. A. Shapiro
Published May 2013
Read ReviewsOn March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today 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.
by Carson Morton
Published Oct 2012
Read ReviewsWhat happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot-tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one priceless painting?
by Elizabeth Lowry
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsThomas Lynch was once a brilliant young art historian. Now he is a disgraced, middle-aged art historian, overly fond of the bottle and of his fresh young students. But everything will change now that hes on the trail of a lost masterpiece.
by Peter Carey
Published May 2007
Read ReviewsMichael Boone is an ex"really famous" painter acting as caretaker for his younger brother, a damaged man of childlike emotional volatility. When a mysterious woman comes into their lives, she upsets their delicate equilibrium sets in motion a chain of events that could be the makingor the ruinof them all.
by Daniel Silva
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsA taut, lightning-paced thriller rooted assuredly in fact: Switzerland's shameful WWII record of profiteering and collaboration with Nazi Germany.
by Frank W. Abagnale
Published Nov 2002
Read ReviewsA revealing look inside the predatory criminal mind from a former master of the con--the ultimate defense against even the craftiest crook.
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