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BOOK SYNOPSIS
“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 new 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.
It was Clare Bast’s love of art that 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 imposter in Jed’s one-percent, Park-Avenue life.
When the well-connected wife of Jed’s new boss introduces her to influential friends - a curator here, a gallerist there, an aficionado abroad - Clare feels an essential part of 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. Caught in the perfectly wrong place at the perfectly wrong time, every clue the investigation uncovers 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?
RECOMMENDED FOR: Grown-Ups
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ADDITIONAL DETAILS:
Publisher: Harper
Publish Date: May 05, 2026
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 9.0 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches | 0.95 pounds
Language: English
Type: Hardcover
Condition: NEW
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