The Fine Art of Lying: A Reese's Book Club Pick

ISBN: 0063472074

Author: Andrews, Alexandra

Condition: New

Alexandra Andrews is monied Manhattans very own Agatha Christie.-Ada CalhounFrom the critically acclaimed author of Who is Maud Dixon? comes a riveting new novel about a young wife and mother thrust into a world of wealth and privilege, whose rash mistake sets off a domino effect of murder and betrayal.In the beginning, there was art.It was Clare Basts love of art that saved her from a bleak, predictable life in upstate New York, and drew her to the cultured world of Manhattans Upper East Side where she met Jed, her doting, affluent husband.Despite her best efforts-including a half-finished PhD, abandoned when her daughter Sadie was born-Clare secretly cant help but feel like an imposter in Jeds one-percent, Park-Avenue life.When the well-connected wife of Jeds new boss introduces her to influential friends-a curator here, a gallerist there, an aficionado abroad-Clare feels an essential part of herself coming alive again. And when she discovers that an important work painted by the subject of her unfinished dissertation is hanging in the brownstone of a seductively attractive dealer, she believes fate is leading her where she belongs . . . until she finds herself at the scene of a gruesome murder and a stolen masterpiece. Caught in the perfectly wrong place at the perfectly wrong time, every clue the investigation uncovers points back to her.Suddenly, Clare is trapped inside a dark and treacherous art world filled with unscrupulous dealers and international criminals. What, exactly, has she gotten herself into . . . and how is she going to get herself, and her family, out?