The Art of Theft
Book Feature - The Art of Theft
HBL Note: Historical fiction + mystery + art? Yes, sign me up. I love historical fiction about people who actually existed, but those stories are difficult to write and often confine the author to what happened to that individual in real life. So sometimes historical fiction that is completely made up can be more fun to read, then add a mystery element and those pages are turning so fast that before you know it you’ve finished the book. All of that would be well and good on its own, but you know how much I love a story with an artistic element. This book has it all. Scroll down to read more about this book…
From the publisher:
Charlotte Holmes, Lady Sherlock, is back solving new cases in the Victorian-set mystery series from the USA Today bestselling author of The Hollow of Fear.
As "Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective," Charlotte Holmes has solved murders and found missing individuals. But she has never stolen a priceless artwork—or rather, made away with the secrets hidden behind a much-coveted canvas.
But Mrs. Watson is desperate to help her old friend recover those secrets and Charlotte finds herself involved in a fever-paced scheme to infiltrate a glamorous Yuletide ball where the painting is one handshake away from being sold and the secrets a bare breath from exposure.
Her dear friend Lord Ingram, her sister Livia, Livia's admirer Stephen Marbleton—everyone pitches in to help and everyone has a grand time. But nothing about this adventure is what it seems and disaster is biding time on the grounds of a glittering French chateau, waiting only for Charlotte to make a single mistake...
