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A DECEPTIVE CLARITY - The First Chris Norgren Mystery If ever a milieu was a natural for the murder mystery, it is the art world. Everything a homicidally inclined writer could dream of is there for the using: objects worth millions, clever forgers, wacky eccentrics, pretentious stuffed shirts, slick wheeler-dealers, and more ingenious scams than anyone will ever know; all set in a burnished context of wealth, avarice, naked greed, and simmering envy.
Aaron Elkins is best known for his sixteen-book series about Gideon Oliver, the Skeleton Detective. But in a recent interview he said, "Of course I love Gideon Oliver, but the truth is, I find Chris Norgren more interesting and more fun. And so does my wife Charlotte."
"Chris is an appealing hero with a sense of humor and some very definite opinions on art. The reader gets a smoothly written mystery and an entertaining dose of art history." "If you like skillful use of background spliced into a mystery, you've come to the right place." - The Baltimore Sun "Elkins thoroughly understands the art of the murder mystery." - The Philadelphia Inquirer "An altogether pleasant, literate piece of work." - The New York Times Book Review "A Deceptive Clarity was an education, an awakening of my shallow education in fine art…Elkins has chosen and used all the right ingredients for a good mystery." - Mystery News
- The Tampa Tribune "
"An intelligent and superbly crafted caper." - Booklist
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In A Deceptive Clarity, the first Chris Norgren mystery. Chris, a Renaissance art expert, heads to Berlin to help mount a sensational exhibition: twenty priceless Old Masters looted by the Nazis and only recently recovered. But the occasion turns chilling when Chris's aristocratic boss, after smelling a forgery in the lot, turns up dead the very next day outside a Frankfurt brothel--the last place on earth anyone would expect to find the patrician Peter van Cortlandt. Now Chris faces two near-impossible tasks: finding the fake painting among the masterpieces and a real killer still at large and gunning for him.
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