2024 International Book Award winner in Literary Fiction, Booklife Editor's Pick, this fast-paced novel is "whip smart . . . with a feisty art heroine" (NYT best selling author Caroline Leavitt) and "enthralling and immersive. . . mastery in storytelling." (BookTrib review) For fans of B. A. Shapiro's Art Forger and Daniel Silva's Art Collector, a courageous female art dealer sabotages a heist of valuable paintings and an international conspiracy in pulse-pounding caper. To save her family from bankruptcy, gallery owner Ally Blake risks everything to exhibit at an art fair in Bogot in the 1990s. When her art crates are tampered with, she discovers an ex-boyfriend from her State Department days has involved her in a money laundering scheme. She must thwart the fraud, protect her children, and secure her family's future--but pulling it off will require her to make the art deal of a lifetime.
2024 International Book Award winner in Literary Fiction, Booklife Editor's Pick, this fast-paced novel is "whip smart . . . with a feisty art heroine" (NYT best selling author Caroline Leavitt) and "enthralling and immersive. . . mastery in storytelling." (BookTrib review) For fans of B. A. Shapiro's Art Forger and Daniel Silva's Art Collector, a courageous female art dealer sabotages a heist of valuable paintings and an international conspiracy in pulse-pounding caper. To save her family from bankruptcy, gallery owner Ally Blake risks everything to exhibit at an art fair in Bogot in the 1990s. When her art crates are tampered with, she discovers an ex-boyfriend from her State Department days has involved her in a money laundering scheme. She must thwart the fraud, protect her children, and secure her family's future--but pulling it off will require her to make the art deal of a lifetime.
