Heists, Celebrity, and Mystery: An Interview with Nicholas Day About The Mona Lisa Vanishes

It was Memorial Day weekend and I was throwing a slew of new books into my bag to read on the drive up to the Wisconsin Dells. In the course of doing so, one particular cover caught my eye. This cover, to be exact:

Intriguing, no? I had this vague sense that I already knew this story, but figured it couldn’t hurt to give the book a read for a few pages.

Next thing I know I’m hurtling down the highway, engrossed in the storytelling of Nicolas Day, while yelling random facts at my kids in...