History is fragile. A single brush can forge it anew.
When a stolen Klimt painting becomes a death sentence, lawyer-turned-writer Saoirse St. James must choose between justice and survival.
Eleanor Ashford should have been safe in her Boston home. Instead, she'''s found murdered—and The Golden Veil, her priceless Gustav Klimt, has vanished without a trace. As executor of Eleanor’s will and the painting’s unexpected heir, Saoirse inherits more than art: she inherits a target on her back.
What begins as a simple insurance claim spirals into a deadly conspiracy stretching from Boston’s elite galleries to Venice’s shadowed auction houses. Alongside enigmatic investigator Matthew O’Donnell, Saoirse uncovers a criminal network that has been rewriting history itself—using forged masterpieces to manipulate the past, reshape power, and conceal the truth behind decades of crimes.
But Eleanor’s death was just the beginning. As bodies fall and evidence vanishes, Saoirse realizes The Golden Veil hides secrets that could expose this empire of lies—and powerful people will kill to protect it. Every step toward the truth draws her deeper into the crosshairs of Maximilian Devereaux, a ruthless powerbroker whose fortune and influence were built on stolen identities, forged provenance, and silenced witnesses.
From Zurich’s cobbled streets to Venice’s labyrinthine canals, this fast-paced thriller follows Saoirse as she stays ahead of assassins who erase their victims as cleanly as they forge the records of history. Because in a world where beauty masks brutality and culture conceals corruption, the most dangerous thing isn’t possessing a stolen masterpiece—it’s knowing who forged it and why.
Some inheritances are worth dying for. Others are worth killing for.
Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell’s The Night She Disappeared and The Family Upstairs, Tana French’s The Witch Elm, and Daniel Silva’s The Rembrandt Affair, this gripping thriller blends psychological suspense, art crime, and deadly conspiracies. Readers of B.A. Shapiro’s The Art Forger, Robert Goddard’s Painting the Darkness, and Steve Berry’s The Amber Room will be drawn into a world where forged masterpieces hide lethal secrets and betrayal cuts deeper than any blade. If you love atmospheric mysteries with emotional stakes, layered characters, and twists that keep you up at night, this is your next must-read.
Genre: Mystery
When a stolen Klimt painting becomes a death sentence, lawyer-turned-writer Saoirse St. James must choose between justice and survival.
Eleanor Ashford should have been safe in her Boston home. Instead, she'''s found murdered—and The Golden Veil, her priceless Gustav Klimt, has vanished without a trace. As executor of Eleanor’s will and the painting’s unexpected heir, Saoirse inherits more than art: she inherits a target on her back.
What begins as a simple insurance claim spirals into a deadly conspiracy stretching from Boston’s elite galleries to Venice’s shadowed auction houses. Alongside enigmatic investigator Matthew O’Donnell, Saoirse uncovers a criminal network that has been rewriting history itself—using forged masterpieces to manipulate the past, reshape power, and conceal the truth behind decades of crimes.
But Eleanor’s death was just the beginning. As bodies fall and evidence vanishes, Saoirse realizes The Golden Veil hides secrets that could expose this empire of lies—and powerful people will kill to protect it. Every step toward the truth draws her deeper into the crosshairs of Maximilian Devereaux, a ruthless powerbroker whose fortune and influence were built on stolen identities, forged provenance, and silenced witnesses.
From Zurich’s cobbled streets to Venice’s labyrinthine canals, this fast-paced thriller follows Saoirse as she stays ahead of assassins who erase their victims as cleanly as they forge the records of history. Because in a world where beauty masks brutality and culture conceals corruption, the most dangerous thing isn’t possessing a stolen masterpiece—it’s knowing who forged it and why.
Some inheritances are worth dying for. Others are worth killing for.
Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell’s The Night She Disappeared and The Family Upstairs, Tana French’s The Witch Elm, and Daniel Silva’s The Rembrandt Affair, this gripping thriller blends psychological suspense, art crime, and deadly conspiracies. Readers of B.A. Shapiro’s The Art Forger, Robert Goddard’s Painting the Darkness, and Steve Berry’s The Amber Room will be drawn into a world where forged masterpieces hide lethal secrets and betrayal cuts deeper than any blade. If you love atmospheric mysteries with emotional stakes, layered characters, and twists that keep you up at night, this is your next must-read.
Genre: Mystery
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