The Art Forger

On March 18, 1990, 13 paintings worth $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Based on this true story, which went down in history as the biggest art robbery in American history, Shapiro presents an exciting and elaborately woven fiction in his novel. Claire Roth, who creates perfect replicas to earn money, hires a prominent gallery owner to fake a stolen Degas painting. Things get complicated when he sees the painting. Claire suspects that the painting stolen in the 1990 robbery was a fake. Will he fake a painting that is already fake, or will he try to break the veil of secrecy behind the painting?