The Immaculate Deception by Iain Pears

The Immaculate Deception by Iain Pears

From internationally bestselling author Iain Pears comes the seventh in his Jonathan Argyll series -- an intriguing mystery of love, loss, and artistic license.
For newlywed and Italian art theft squad head Flavia di Stefano, the honeymoon is over when a painting, borrowed from the Louvre and en route to a celebratory exhibition, is stolen. Desperate to avoid public embarrassment -- and to avoid paying a ransom -- the Italian prime minister leans hard on Flavia to get it back quickly and quietly.
Across town, her husband, art historian Jonathan Argyll, begins an investigation of his own, tracing the past of a small Renaissance painting -- an Immaculate Conception -- owned by Flavia's mentor, retired general Taddeo Bottando. Soon both husband and wife uncover astonishing and chilling secrets, and Flavia's investigation takes a sudden turn from the search for an art thief to the hunt for a murderer.

Tim Pears' novels include In the Place of Falling Leaves, which won the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award; In a Land of Plenty, which was adapted into a ten-part BBC television series; A Revolution of the Sun; Wake Up; and Blenheim Orchard. Pears lives in Oxford and has won various accolades, including the Lannan Literary Award.

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ISBN 13	9780743212571
ISBN 10	0743212576
Title	The Immaculate Deception
Author	Iain Pears
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2000-10-30
Number of pages	221
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