Aaron Elkins 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 Chris's 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).