A TRACE OF DECEIT
by Karen Odden
William Morrow Paperbacks
12/17/2019
416 pages
A young painter digs beneath the veneer of Victorian London's art world to learn the truth behind her brother's murder...
Edwin is dead. That's what Inspector Matthew Hallam of Scotland Yard tells Annabel Rowe when she discovers him searching her brother's flat for clues. While the news is shocking, Annabel can't say it's wholly unexpected, given Edwin's past as a dissolute risk-taker and art forger, although he swore he'd reformed. After years spent blaming his reckless behavior for their parents' deaths, Annabel is now faced with the question of who murdered him--because Edwin's death was both violent and deliberate. A valuable French painting he'd been restoring for an auction house is missing from his studio: find the painting, find the murderer. But the owner of the artwork claims it was destroyed in a warehouse fire years ago.
As a painter at the prestigious Slade School of Art and as Edwin's closet relative, Annabel make the case that she is crucial to Matthew's investigation. But in their search for the painting, Matthew and Annabel trace a path of deceit and viciousness that reaches far beyond the elegant rooms of the auction house, into an underworld of politics, corruption, and secrets someone will kill to keep.
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A TRACE OF DECEIT can be purchased from HarperCollins, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, and at local booksellers everywhere.
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7 comments:
I'd love to win this! I have read her other book and really enjoyed them!
Sounds very interesting but how can we buy this book?
Please, let me know, thank you,
Monique Denoncin Odman
I'm so glad I found your blog :) I'm a PhD student in French literature at Penn, who works on 16h-century religious propaganda. So I'm always looking for good historical fiction set in the period. Those Italian wars are so hard to follow.
This looks fabulous!
Sounds like an interesting read!
Sounds like a very interesting book.
My mother-in law loves a good mystery - I bet she would enjoy this one!
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