bookshelves: summer-2015, tbr-busting-2015, art-forms, published-2009, mystery-thriller, under-500-ratings Read from April 19 to June 15, 2015 Narrated by George GuidallDescription: Best-selling author David Hosp weaves a thrilling tale of betrayal set against one of the most notorious art heis...
This was a decent thriller.
The Gardner Museum art theft is the largest unsolved art theft ever perpetrated. The thieves got away with priceless pieces of art and a few incidental tokens. The mixture of the items taken has baffled investigators since it occurred in 1990. There are many factual books written about this theft. T...
A good solid three stars, maybe even 3 1/2. The most interesting thing about this book was that Hosp built a fictional mystery around a real event---the biggest art theft in history. The theft took place at the Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990. The art works have never been recovered, and are esti...
Hosp isn't as well known as he should be, as far as I'm concerned. I've read all his books so far, and liked them all. It's been a while since I've read this, so the plot is fuzzy in my mind, but I did copy a good quote from it at the time I read it. A very timely quote, I might add, given the pol...
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