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Rescuing Da Vinci by Robert Edsel - a piece of WWII history we don't usually hear about
Has anyone read the Red Leather Diary?
Touchstone by Laurie King is a psychological drama set in England in the 1920s.
American Federal Agent, Harris Stuyvesant, is on the trail of a terrorist . In the course of his investigation, he meets Bennett Grey, a man who's uncanny ability to sense when a person is telling the truth came about after a brush with death during World War I.
At the center of the investigation are a sinister British agent, Grey's sister Sarah, Laura Hurleigh his former lover and a charismatic British politician who may be the man who set the bomb wich turned Stuyvesant's brother into a vegetable who is Laura's current love.
This story is atmospheric and compelling and an unusually intelligent suspense novel.
Debbie Griffin-Sadel
Red Bank Public Library
Director
The Forger’s Spell by Edward Dolnick should have been a captivating book. The topic is about one of the greatest art forgeries of the 20th century. The details of how the forger, Hans Van Meegeren, managed to paint a 17th century painting in the 20th century are intriguing. If that isn’t enough, the story takes place during the period leading up to and during WWII when the Nazis were stealing or “repatriating” art masterpieces from across Europe. Interviews with the author on NPR, particularly with host Bob Edwards (PRI), were interesting. Yet curiously, when Bob Edwards pushed for some revelations, the author declined, wishing, it seemed, to leave something to discover in the book. Unfortunately, there isn’t much to discover. It just goes on and on about different art critics disagreeing about “real” or “fake”.
And to be truthful, one description early on in the book was particularly off-putting. Dolnick describes an art historian as having “the prissy, pedantic manner of a small-town librarian”. (pg. 111)
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