Author: bashapiro

“Lush, atmospheric” (Booklist): In 1920s Paris, Paulien loses everything when she’s falsely accused of theft. To clear her name, she creates a new identity — and sets out to recover her father’s art collection… A “thoroughly rewarding novel” (Publishers Weekly) from a New York Times bestselling author.

Almost twenty-five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — still the largest unsolved art theft in history — one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist. Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain with a powerful gallery owner by agreeing to forge the Degas in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. … gallery. But as she begins her work, she starts to suspect that this long-missing masterpiece — the very one that had been hanging at the Gardner for one hundred years…