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Also by B.A. Shapiro:

The Muralist, November 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The Safe Room, February 2015
Paperback / e-Book
The Art Forger, November 2012
Hardcover / e-Book

THE ART FORGER
By: B.A. Shapiro

Algonquin Books
November 2012
On Sale: October 23, 2012
368 pages
ISBN: 1616201320
EAN: 9781616201326
Kindle: B008NEZVPY
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Family Life | Historical

On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today 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.

Claire makes her living reproducing famous works of art for a popular online retailer. Desperate to improve her situation, she lets herself be lured into a Faustian bargain with Aiden Markel, a powerful gallery owner. She agrees to forge a painting—one of the Degas masterpieces stolen from the Gardner Museum—in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But when the long-missing Degas painting—the one that had been hanging for one hundred years at the Gardner—is delivered to Claire’s studio, she begins to suspect that it may itself be a forgery.

Claire’s search for the truth about the painting’s origins leads her into a labyrinth of deceit where secrets hidden since the late nineteenth century may be the only evidence that can now save her life. B. A. Shapiro’s razor-sharp writing and rich plot twists make The Art Forger an absorbing literary thriller that treats us to three centuries of forgers, art thieves, and obsessive collectors. it’s a dazzling novel about seeing—and not seeing—the secrets that lie beneath the canvas.

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Morning Edition - December 13, 2012