At CrimeReads she tagged eight notable crime novels set in the art world, including:
Rebecca Scherm, Unbecoming (Penguin)Read about the other entries on the list.
This Edgar-nominated first novel reveals its true core to the reader slowly and skillfully. When we first meet Grace she’s working for a less than upstanding dealer in high-value tchotchkes. Grace is very good at her job, but she doesn’t care about it. We know she’s running from something or someone, since she’s calling herself Julie and keeping everyone at an almost rude distance. Scenes from her current life are woven into her past as an all-American small-town girl who did an unforgivable thing that sent two men to jail. One of them has just been paroled and he’s looking for her, causing upheaval in her carefully ordered fake life.
Writers Read: Rebecca Scherm (February 2015).
--Marshal Zeringue
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