Razor-sharp writing and rich plot twists make The Art Forger a rousing literary thriller spanning three centuries of forgers art thieves and obsessive collectors.
On March 18 1990 thirteen works of art today worth over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history and Claire Roth a struggling young artist is about to discover that there?s more to this crime than meets the eye.
Making a living reproducing famous artworks for a popular online retailer and desperate to improve her situation Claire is lured into a Faustian bargain with Aiden Markel a powerful gallery owner. She agrees to forge a painting?a Degas masterpiece stolen from the Gardner Museum?in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But when that very same long-missing Degas painting is delivered to Claire?s studio she begins to suspect that it may itself be a forgery.
Her desperate search for the truth leads Claire into a labyrinth of deceit where secrets hidden since the late nineteenth century may be the only evidence that can now save her life.
