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A bitter journalist and troubled art expert risk their lives to find the connection between a legendary painting and a series of rash murders in this “riveting, brutal journey into the high stakes world of legacy art and inherited wealth” (Denise Mina, author of Conviction)
Thomas Tallis, inspector of provenance, has just arrived in Edinburgh, Scotland to authenticate The Goldenacre, a masterpiece by iconic Scottish architect and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Still dealing with a miserable divorce and the fall-out from a disastrous job in London, Tallis is eager to sign off on the painting and return home. It shouldn't take long: the painting has been owned by the same noble family since the 1920s. But then a horrifying parcel arrives on Tallis's desk, seemingly threatening him against investigating the painting, and Tallis realizes there is nothing simple about this job at all.
Meanwhile, gruesome murders are plaguing Edinburgh. First, a Scottish painter of great renown. Next, an Edinburgh City Counsellor. Bitter, exhausted newspaper reporter Shona Sandison is on the case. Not bound by traditional rules of propriety in her investigation, Shona is ready to play dirty to get the best story she can, regardless of whether it's true. When Shona begins to suspect a connection between The Goldenacre and the murders, she seeks Tallis's help to understand how the painting is mixed up in all of this violence before either one of them becomes the next victim.
Pensive, lush, and tragically human, The Goldenacre is journalist and poet Philip Miller's heartbroken love letter to Edinburgh, and an unpredictable, gorgeously plotted mystery to savor.
Thomas Tallis, inspector of provenance, has just arrived in Edinburgh, Scotland to authenticate The Goldenacre, a masterpiece by iconic Scottish architect and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Still dealing with a miserable divorce and the fall-out from a disastrous job in London, Tallis is eager to sign off on the painting and return home. It shouldn't take long: the painting has been owned by the same noble family since the 1920s. But then a horrifying parcel arrives on Tallis's desk, seemingly threatening him against investigating the painting, and Tallis realizes there is nothing simple about this job at all.
Meanwhile, gruesome murders are plaguing Edinburgh. First, a Scottish painter of great renown. Next, an Edinburgh City Counsellor. Bitter, exhausted newspaper reporter Shona Sandison is on the case. Not bound by traditional rules of propriety in her investigation, Shona is ready to play dirty to get the best story she can, regardless of whether it's true. When Shona begins to suspect a connection between The Goldenacre and the murders, she seeks Tallis's help to understand how the painting is mixed up in all of this violence before either one of them becomes the next victim.
Pensive, lush, and tragically human, The Goldenacre is journalist and poet Philip Miller's heartbroken love letter to Edinburgh, and an unpredictable, gorgeously plotted mystery to savor.