The Immaculate Deception

Pears, Iain

ISBN 10: 0743272412 / ISBN 13: 9780743272414

Verlag: Scribner (edition 1st Scribner Trade Ppbk Ed. 2005), 2005

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Inhaltsangabe:

From internationally bestselling author Iain Pears comes the seventh in his Jonathan Argyll series -- an intriguing mystery of love, loss, and artistic license.
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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Iain Pears is the author of the New York Times bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost and The Portrait. He lives in Oxford, England.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Immaculate Deception
Verlag: Scribner (edition 1st Scribner Trade Ppbk Ed. 2005)
Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: 1st Scribner Trade Ppbk Ed. 2005.