The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby by Ellery Lloyd

The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby by Ellery Lloyd

"Read this in about two sittings--absolutely loved it. Dazzlingly clever and beautifully twisty. Don't miss it!!"--Emilia Hart, author of Weyward

The gripping follow up to the "smart, stylish, and savage" (People) New York Times bestseller and Reese's Book Club pick The Club--a twisty mystery involving a cursed wealthy family and a Surrealist painting which holds the key to three suspicious deaths over the course of a century.

Some women won't be painted out of history . . .

Everybody knows that in 1938, runaway heiress artist Juliette Willoughby perished in an accidental studio fire in Paris, alongside her masterpiece Self Portrait As Sphinx.

Fifty years later, two Cambridge art history students are pulled into a decades-old art history mystery when they stumble across proof that the fire was no accident but something more sinister. What they uncover threatens the very foundation of Juliette's aristocratic family, exposing long-buried family secrets and reviving rumors of the infamous curse that has haunted the Willoughbys for generations.

But what does their discovery mean? And how is it connected to a brutal murder in present-day Dubai?

A tale of love and madness, obsession and revenge, this compelling work of historical fiction, The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby, unravels the riddle posed by a Sphinx who refuses to reveal her secrets . . .

Ellery Lloyd is the pseudonym for London-based husband-and-wife writing team Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos. Collette is a journalist and editor, the former content director of Elle (UK) and editorial director at Soho House. She has written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and the Sunday Times. Paul is the author of two previous novels, Welcome to the Working Week and Every Day is Like Sunday. He is the program director for English Literature with Creative Writing at the University of Surrey.