| Author/Contributor(s): | Andrews, Alexandra |
| Publisher: | Harper Perennial |
| Date: | 5/4/2027 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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“This book feels like a secret I’m not supposed to share . . . but it’s too good not to!”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club May ’26 Pick)
“Alexandra Andrews is monied Manhattan’s very own Agatha Christie.”—Ada Calhoun
From the critically acclaimed author of Who Is Maud Dixon? comes a riveting novel about a young wife and mother in a world of wealth and privilege whose rash mistake sets off a domino effect of murder and betrayal.
In the beginning, there was art.
Clare Bast’s love of art saved her from a bleak, predictable life in upstate New York and drew her to the cultured world of Manhattan’s 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 can’t help but feel like an impostor in Jed’s one percent, Park Avenue life.
When the well-connected wife of Jed’s new boss introduces Clare to influential friends—a curator here, a gallerist there, an aficionado abroad—she feels 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. She’s caught in the perfectly wrong place at the perfectly wrong time, and every clue 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?