"Who was Mattia Preti anyway?"
Description:
"What happens when a world-class art expert wants not only to exhibit a long-lost painting by Caravaggio but also to own it?
Margaret Truman takes us into a heady exciting world of genius with this story of a senior curator at the nation's famed National Gallery of Art who plans a brilliant exhibition around the masterpiece. He also begins to make a more personal and daring plan. His masterly scheme promises prestige, fame, a small fortune, plus a number of artful deceptions and a disappearing act that will rival the story of the painting itself.
But circumstances intervene in the form of a demanding son, a more demanding and ambitious mistress, an unscrupulous collector, persons suddenly dead, and the fact that Annabel Reed-Smith is asked by her ex-college roommate, now the vice president's wife, to keep an eye on things at the Gallery and the coming exhibition." -- from Amazon.com
My thoughts:
I like this mystery set in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and in Italy. There were a lot of twists that kept me guessing throughout the book.
Date read: 4/11/2015
Book #:7
Series: Capitol Crimes, #13
Rating: 3*/5 = good
Genre: Mystery
ISBN-10: 0449219380
ISBN-13: 978-0449219386
Publisher: Fawcett
Year: 1997
# of pages: 386
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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