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The Borgia Portrait

by David Hewson
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A noble family, a legendary painting, a cursed palazzo.
When Arnold Clover is recruited by Lizzie Hawker to help her look into her family inheritance, he cannot begin to guess the journey he is about to embark on.
Lizzie's mother, an Italian countess, disappeared thirty years ago, presumed dead. Her father has just died and now the family home, a leaning palazzo in Dorsoduro that is full of secrets, has fallen to Lizzie. When her mother vanished so too did a priceless painting of Lucrezia Borgia - but it quickly becomes apparent that Lizzie and Arnold are not the only ones interested in finding it.
The search for the lost Lucrezia quickly becomes a race through the secret history of Venice, one with potentially deadly consequences.

  • Creators

  • Series

    A Venetian Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 2, 2024

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781838858728

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781838858728
      • File size: 4180 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      May 15, 2023
      British archivist Arnold Clover has lived in Venice for decades and knows the city and its sometimes-baffling laws and customs almost as well as a native. So when his friend Valentina, an Italian carabinieri, asks if he'll help Lizzie Hawker, daughter of an Italian contessa and a now-dead American rock-music entrepreneur, navigate an inheritance issue, he agrees. Lizzie's mother mysteriously disappeared when Lizzie was five, and her father lived a decadent lifestyle, squandering his money. Eventually, father and daughter moved to London. After Hawker's death, Lizzie stands to inherit Ca'Scacchi, the now-abandoned, dilapidated palazzo where she grew up--if she can have her mother declared dead. Then workers find a body in the palazzo's garden; it appears to be Lizzie's mother. Under the body is a sheaf of papers which turns out to contain clues leading to a priceless painting of Lucrezia Borgia that once hung in Ca'Scacchi. A murder mystery, an eye-opening tour of Venice, a lesson in Italian history, and a titillating tale of love, loss, and revenge, this is one for fans of the unusual.

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