The Immaculate Deception

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'Pears writes with such wit and a deep knowledge
of art and history that as entertainment his series
has few rivals' Peter Guttridge, Observer
When an important, politically sensitive painting is
kidnapped in Rome, Flavia di Stefano, acting head
of the Italian Art Theft Squad, is told to get it back
at all costs - without causing any embarrassment
to the country and without paying the ransom.
Put in an impossible position, she turns for help to
her old mentor General Taddeo Bottando, who casts
a wholly unexpected light on the crime.
In the meantime, her husband, English art historian
Jonathan Argyll, embarks on an investigation of his
own. As a gift to Bottando, he decides to establish
the provenance of a small Renaissance painting,
an Immaculate Conception, currently hanging on
the wall of the general's apartment.
Absorbing and ingeniously plotted, The Immaculate
Deception is both a fascinating art-history puzzle
and a gripping murder mystery as the search for... Tovább

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'Pears writes with such wit and a deep knowledge
of art and history that as entertainment his series
has few rivals' Peter Guttridge, Observer
When an important, politically sensitive painting is
kidnapped in Rome, Flavia di Stefano, acting head
of the Italian Art Theft Squad, is told to get it back
at all costs - without causing any embarrassment
to the country and without paying the ransom.
Put in an impossible position, she turns for help to
her old mentor General Taddeo Bottando, who casts
a wholly unexpected light on the crime.
In the meantime, her husband, English art historian
Jonathan Argyll, embarks on an investigation of his
own. As a gift to Bottando, he decides to establish
the provenance of a small Renaissance painting,
an Immaculate Conception, currently hanging on
the wall of the general's apartment.
Absorbing and ingeniously plotted, The Immaculate
Deception is both a fascinating art-history puzzle
and a gripping murder mystery as the search for the
truth uncovers shocking secrets from the past and
leads Argyll and Flavia into the path of some very
dangerous enemies indeed.
'There is nothing so satisfactory as the deconstruction
of a puzzle in the hands of such an erudite and sure-
footed author. Iain Pears is formidably knowledgeable,
loves Italy and is nicely cynical about the labyrinthine
twists of the Italian political system'
Elizabeth BIjchan, The Times Vissza