From the author of A Dangerous Duet comes the next book in her
Victorian mystery series, this time following a daring female painter
and the Scotland Yard detective who is investigating her brother's
suspicious death.
A young painter digs beneath the veneer of Victorian London's art world
to learn the truth behind her brother's murder...
Edwin is dead. That's what Inspector Matthew Hallam of Scotland Yard
tells Annabel Rowe when she discovers him searching her brother's flat
for clues. While the news is shocking, Annabel can't say it's wholly
unexpected, given Edwin's past as a dissolute risk-taker and art forger,
although he swore he'd reformed. After years spent blaming his reckless
behavior for their parents' deaths, Annabel is now faced with the
question of who murdered him--because Edwin's death was both violent and
deliberate. A valuable French painting he'd been restoring for an
auction house is missing from his studio: find the painting, find the
murderer. But the owner of the artwork claims it was destroyed in a
warehouse fire years ago.
As a painter at the prestigious Slade School of Art and as Edwin's
closest relative, Annabel makes the case that she is crucial to
Matthew's investigation. But in their search for the painting, Matthew
and Annabel trace a path of deceit and viciousness that reaches far
beyond the elegant rooms of the auction house, into an underworld of
politics, corruption, and secrets someone will kill to keep.
