A Mysterious Review of The Art Whisperer by Charlotte and Aaron Elkins. An Alix London Mystery.
Review summary: Fast paced, with an engaging lead character and a storyline that isn't all that demanding, this art-themed mystery is generally entertaining, and will provide pleasant way to while away a quiet afternoon. (Click here for text of full review.)
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The Art Whisperer
Charlotte Elkins and Aaron Elkins
An Alix London Mystery
Thomas & Mercer (August 2014)
Publisher synopsis: When art conservator Alix London spots a forgery, she knows trouble will follow. So she's understandably apprehensive when her connoisseur's eye spots something off about a multimillion-dollar Jackson Pollock painting at Palm Springs's Brethwaite Museum — her current employer.
Alix is already under fire, the object of a vicious online smear campaign. Now the Brethwaite's despicable senior curator, obsessed with the "maximization of monetized eyeballs," angrily refuses to decommission the celebrated Pollock piece. But it's only when a hooded intruder attacks Alix in her hotel room that the real trouble begins. And when FBI Special Agent Ted Ellesworth — with whom Alix had inadvertently, but thoroughly, botched a budding relationship just a year prior — turns up to investigate the Pollock, Alix knows she's about to have her hands full.
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