The discovery of a lost Caravaggio painting yields centuries of deadly secrets in this pulse-pounding novel of historical intrigue and modern-day suspense? In seventeenth-century Rome, an arrogant and reckless artist named Caravaggio drinks and brawls his way through his violent, insatiable life, all while painting some of the worlds greatest religious works of art. But it is his bitter feud with Giovanni Roero, a brutal knight in the Maltese Order of St. John, that is his fatal error. Now, in the village of Monte Piccolo, a priest claims to have discovered a lost painting by the famed artist in the storage room of an orphanage. Retired professor A. R. Richman believes its a delusional dream. But Lucia, a visiting art student, convinces him otherwise and recruits her best friend, Moto, to join in the quest. They think The Judas Kiss is worth investigating. But tracing its provenance back four hundred years could prove to be just as treacherous as the masters final days. Richman, Lucia, and Moto begin chasing the mystery, uncovering a blood feud hidden for years that has now spilled into the twenty-first century. As they follow where it leadsdown a trail of murder, betrayal, and vengeancethey find a secret history that someone will kill to keep buried.
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Publication Date: 01 Jun 2019
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781542044097
About Andy StoneLinda Lafferty
Linda Lafferty is the author of The Bloodletters Daughter House of Bathory The Girl Who Fought Napoleon and the Colorado Book Award winners The Drowning Guard and The Shepherdess of Siena. She holds a doctorate in bilingual special education and taught in Spain for three years. She is an avid equestrian and horse lover. Andy Stone worked for thirty-five years for the Aspen Times as a reporter editor award-winning columnist and eventually the publisher of the newspaper. He is the author of the novels Song of the Kingdom and Aspen Drift. Linda Lafferty and Andy Stone had their first date on the ski slopes of Aspen Colorado. They were married in 1986 and still live in the Roaring Fork Valley.