Feint of Art
#1 of the Art Lover's Mystery series
Agatha-Award nominee
Annie's got bad news for her ex-boyfriend, curator Ernst Pettigrew; The snooty Brock Museum's new fifteen-million-dollar Caravaggio painting is as fake as a three-dollar bill. Then, the same night Annie makes her shattering appraisal, the janitor on duty in the museum is killed—and Ernst disappears. To top it all off, a well-known art dealer has absconded with multiple Old Master drawings, leaving forgeries in their places. Finding the originals and pocketing the reward money will help Annie get her landlord off her back. But a close encounter with a fickle yet charming art thief could draw her into the underworld of fakes and forgers she swore she'd left behind...
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Penguin Group (USA), Paperback, (January 2006), ISBN-13: 9780451216991
Praise
"...A fast-paced, thoroughly enjoyable novel. A highly recommended read."
—C.E. Japhe, Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine
"This is one mystery series not to be missed, but one to keep and savor."
—Connie Payne, Once Upon a Romance
"Annie Kincaid is a fun and fascinating new sleuth, whose adventures are delightfully different. Fast-paced ... this is a series to watch... And, in lieu of the rather cliched recipe, the authors instead offer instructions for a faux painting technique."
—Susan Illis, New Mystery Reader
"Annie is a complex character with a past that's dark enough to be interesting, but not bad enough to make her unsympathetic in the present. Her grandfather, Georges, is still up to his old tricks; he and the shadowy world of art forgery add some real interest to the story. Readers who enjoy art or art history will be enthralled with the wealth of information here. Readers who don't know van Gogh from van Eyck will have no trouble, given the well-written and understandable artistic background. I'm anxious to see what's next for Annie."
—Deborah Hern
"Hailey Lind gives details about San Francisco not normally trodden by the tourist, but by the native. She shows the true melting pot of riches to rags, from honest people to criminals, and from cosmopolitan to Goth that the Bay area has to share. ... Feint of Art is truly worth reading, and I'm excited to read the next in the Annie Kincaid's series. I won't tell you why, you'll have to read that for yourself."
—Jackie Fleming
