Book description
Ben Contini, a disenchanted painter of considerable talent, has
just buried his mother. Rifling through the attic of her Kilkenny
house he stumbles across a Modigliani nude, worth millions. Determined
to learn the provenance of the painting, he and Elsa, a disturbed and
secretive woman who accosts him at the funeral, become embroiled in
the sinister world of Nazi art theft. But they are not the only one
with an interest in the painting... Together they set off on a frantic
journey that leads them from Dublin to France via the Cotswolds, down
the Canal du Midi into Italy. The intrigue surrounding the shadowy
half-truths about their exotic families becomes increasingly sinister
as Ben and Elsa are forced to confront their pasts and their buried
demons. Set in the 1980s, this is a fantastic new book from
established thriller writer Joseph Hone, who weaves a breathless,
galloping intrigue packed with narrative twists and sumptuous
evocations of Europe's forgotten past.
