The Art Forger (Thorndike Press Large Print Peer Picks)

A #1 Indie Next Pick -- On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The crime remains unsolved. Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there's more to this art heist than meets the eye. Claire has agreed to forge a painting for a powerful gallery owner in exchange for a one-woman show. But her suspicions about the painting lead Claire to 19th-century secrets... This Peer Pick title was selected by Wendy Bartlett, the Fiction Selector and Collection Development Manager for Cuyahoga County Public Library.