I loved this book, which was inspired by the art heist (which has never been solved) at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Claire Roth is an artist with a checkered past. With her career in ruins, she works for a company that specializes in copied art works. It is no crime to copy art, however, it is to pass such work off as the original. She is given the opportunity to revive her career and have a one-woman show at a prestigious art gallery if she agrees to copy a Degas masterpiece that was one of the works stolen from the Gardner museum. As Claire begins to work on the copy, she comes to the realization that the "original" is, itself, a forgery.
5 Stars
Read: April 19, 2014
