A Death in Cornwall Intl A Novel

Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into London when an old friend from the Devon and Cornwall Police asks for his help with a baffling murder investigation. The victim is Charlotte Blake, a celebrated professor of art history from Oxford, who was killed in the seaside village where Gabriel once lived under an assumed identity. Her murder initially appears to be the work of a local serial killer, but telltale inconsistencies, including a missing mobile phone and a mysterious three-letter cypher she left behind, suggest a deeper conspiracy. Gabriel soon discovers that Professor Blake was searching for a looted Picasso painting worth more than $100 million. He takes up the chase for the missing masterpiece, enlisting an unlikely team of operatives—including a world-famous violinist, a master thief, and a lethal contract killer turned British spy—and using six Impressionist canvases forged by his own hand. The stylish and suspenseful mystery moves at lightning speed from the cliffs of Cornwall to the enchanted island of Corsica, and finally to a dramatic climax on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street, in a dazzling tale of murder, power, and insatiable greed.

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