A Deceptive Clarity

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An American museum curator in Berlin must find a fake paintingand a real killerin this mystery from the Edgar Awardwinning author of Switcheroo.

Chris Norgren, museum curator and Renaissance art expert, heads to Berlin to assist in mounting a sensational exhibit: The Plundered Pasttwenty priceless Old Masters looted by the Nazis, thought for decades to be lost forever, and only recently rediscovered.

But things quickly get out of hand when Chriss patrician, fastidious boss, after sensing a forgery in the lot, turns up dead the very next dayon the steps of a dismal Frankfurt brothel, of all places. Now, Chris faces a daunting task: finding a counterfeit artwork among the masterpiecesand an all-too-real killer whose sights are now set on him.

A Deceptive Clarity is the first in the Chris Norgren Mysteries by the multiple awardwinning creator of the Gideon Oliver Skeleton Detective novelsa celebrated master who thoroughly understands the art of the murder mystery (The Philadelphia Inquirer).

Author Bio

Aaron Elkins is a former anthropologist and professor who has been writing mysteries and thrillers since 1982. His major continuing series features forensic anthropologistdetective Gideon Oliver, the Skeleton Detective. There are fifteen published titles to date in the series. The Gideon Oliver books have been (roughly) translated into a major ABCTV series and have been selections of the BookoftheMonth Club, the Literary Guild, and the Readers Digest Condensed Mystery Series. His work has been published in a dozen languages.
Mr. Elkins won the 1988 Edgar Award for best mystery of the year forOld Bones, the fourth book in the Gideon Oliver Series. He and his cowriter and wife, Charlotte, also won an Agatha Award, and he has also won a Nero Wolfe Award. Mr. Elkins lives on Washingtons Olympic Peninsula with Charlotte.