Provenance

<p>The year is 1993. Christina Perretti working as an investigator with Interpol's new art crimes unit out of Rome discovers through the recovery of a lost Egon Schiele painting in Moscow a cache of notes from a notorious Berlin art dealer for the Nazis Harry Maes. The notes are addressed to his son Nikolaus but they concern the provenance of a number of paintings believed to have been in Maes's possession at the time of his death.</p><p> </p><p>As Perretti seeks to recover these works all presumed to be stolen from Jewish families during the Second World War she discovers a decades-old plot to save some of the Vatican's greatest treasures from the Nazis and a web of intrigue and murder involving those seeking to profit from the burgeoning grey and black markets in the former Eastern Bloc.</p><p> </p><p><em>Provenance</em> pieces together one family's legacy what was lost and recovered at the moment once thought to mark the end of history.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Provenance is a novel that reads like the best trade non-fiction. It is thoroughly researched entirely plausible and feels like it could be a true story. There are treasures stolen by and hidden from the Nazis still out there waiting to be found. Here's an intelligent classic-in-the-making on just that theme.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>-Dr Noah Charney</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Best-selling author of The 12-Hour Art Expert</span></p>