Stealing Venus

Painter Will Bentley is visited in his Cambridge studio by Lucy Wrackham, who is investigating a case of art forgery. She persuades him to hunt for his ex-prison friend Alfred Smith, an esteemed forger. But Alfred proves elusive, and someone seems to know their every move and is determined to thwart them. As violence and increasing mayhem disturb the gentle world of art, a Botticelli masterpiece is snatched from London’s elite National Gallery. Lucy at last uncovers the shocking truth but is betrayed and Will must find her before it is too late. This art crime novel submerges you in the art world and the corruption that power and big money unleash.