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Honestly, it was silly. I expected better of the renowned travel writer.
Typical elements involved: Fashionable New York living, trips to Paris, fancy meals and drinks, falling in love with a beautiful woman, rich & sympathetic patron, nasty bad guys, somehow invincible good guys, art theft using a local delivery van.
Unusual elements: The narrative switched viewpoints among nearly all the characters involved, so we know what's going on in everyone's heads. ... and that's all I can come up with f ...more
Typical elements involved: Fashionable New York living, trips to Paris, fancy meals and drinks, falling in love with a beautiful woman, rich & sympathetic patron, nasty bad guys, somehow invincible good guys, art theft using a local delivery van.
Unusual elements: The narrative switched viewpoints among nearly all the characters involved, so we know what's going on in everyone's heads. ... and that's all I can come up with f ...more
Andre Kelly is a freelance photographer who does a lot of work for a decorating magazine. While in France he stops by a house where he shot pictures in the past and sees a Cezanne being loaded into a plumbers truck. Andre then becomes obsessed, for no apparent reason, with finding out why this happened. Even after getting a perfectly valid explanation from the paintings owner he is still obsessed with it.
I wouldn't classify this book as a thriller. It's mostly Andre travelling around wondering ...more
I wouldn't classify this book as a thriller. It's mostly Andre travelling around wondering ...more
Feb 13, 2012
Ginger
marked it as to-read
Mar 06, 2021
Curlysue
marked it as to-read
