THE IMMACULATE DECEPTION by IAIN PEARS
Art Historian Mystery #7
For newlywed and Italian Art Theft Squad head Flavia di Stefano, the honeymoon is over when a painting, borrowed from the Louvre and en route to a celebratory exhibition, is stolen. Desperate to avoid public embarrassment—and to avoid paying a ransom—the Italian prime minister leans hard on Flavia to get it back quickly and quietly.
Across town her husband, art historian Jonathan Argyll, begins an investigation of his own tracing the past of a small Renaissance painting—an Immaculate Conception—owned by Flavia's mentor, retired General Taddeo Bottando. Soon both husband and wife uncover astonishing and chilling secrets, and Flavia's investigation takes a sudden turn from the search for an art thief to the hunt for a murderer.
Pears is an art historian, as is his protagonist Jonathan Argyll.
First US edition, first print.
Price $25.00 intact.
Condition....immaculate. Really--just a remainder mark on the bottom and bumped corners on top. The pages are quite tight. Really lovely package--as befits a book about art.
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