Richard C Pizey Ripples

Annotation

That the Nazis looted and stole priceless works of art from the Jews and from other sources all over German-occupied Europe is a fact. That some of those masterpieces may have been disguised as works by lesser artists and shipped off across the world for safe-keeping is the premise of this mystery-cum-modern-day romance. A letter arrives out of the blue from America and alerts Alex to the possibility that he may be related to a virtually unknown artist, some of whose works have just been uncovered in upstate New York. This is where this well-crafted story starts, and it ends up taking the reader on a whirlwind tour of Bavaria, New York City, the Scottish Highlands and some of London's most famous landmarks as Alex and his girlfriend Jessica attempt to fathom out the mystery behind the Prentiss Poses a mystery almost equalled by the question of how to make a twentieth-century relationship work. Set in the 1980s and laced with humour, sex, art history and Nazi cover-ups, Ripples is a fusion of intimate romance and global mystery.