Death and Restoration by Iain Pears

Death and Restoration by Iain Pears

General Bottando can't believe his rotten luck. He has just been promoted--to a position that's heavy on bureaucratic duties-but disturbingly light on investigative responsibilities. As if that wasn't annoying enough, he's received a tip about a planned raid at a nearby monastery. He's relying on his colleague Flavia di Stefano and her art-expert fianc , Jonathan Argyll, to thwart the plot-but both are beyond baffled. The only valuable item in the monastery's art collection is a supposed Caravaggio that's currently being restored. There are no solid suspects-unless you count the endearing art thief, the flagrantly flamboyant Rottweiler of Restoration, and the strangely shady icon expert. And there's really no reason to cause an unholy uproar-until someone commits an unconscionable crime.

‘Iain Pears has a superior line in this kind of tale… A divertingly complex, often comic, story in which the art motif is ingeniously central to the solution’
Guardian (of The Titian Committee)

‘Delightfully pursued and narrated puzzle, with several prize sinuosities’
The Sunday Times (of The Bernini Bust)

Iain Pears is a journalist and art historian. After several years working for Reuters, he went to Yale University to complete his book, The Discovery of Painting, which was published by Yale University Press in 1988. He now lives in Oxford

Iain Pears is the author of five previous art-world crime novels: The Raphael Affair, The Titian Committee, The Bernini Bust, The Last Judgement and Giotto’s Hand.

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ISBN 13	9780002325905
ISBN 10	000232590X
Title	Death and Restoration
Author	Iain Pears
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	1996-05-23
Number of pages	224
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