Confidence
‘Riveting and fast-paced’ Sunday Times
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3.1 • 12 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A MISSING FILM-MAKER. A STOLEN ANTIQUE. SOMEONE WILL KILL TO STOP THEM BEING FOUND...
'A cinematic thriller' The Times
'Denise Mina is crime-writing royalty' Val McDermid, author of 1989
When filmmaker, Lisa Lee goes missing, alongside a priceless Roman silver casket, there is no doubt the two are linked.
The day after her vanishing, the casket is listed for auction in Paris with a reserve price of fifty million euros.
On a thrilling chase across Europe to discover what happened to Lisa, journalists Anna and Fin are caught up in a world of international art smuggling, billionaire con artists and religious zealotry.
But someone doesn't want them to find the missing girl... and will do anything to stop them.
An escapist, edge-of-your-seat thriller from New York Times bestselling author of CONVICTION.
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'Riveting, fast-paced'
Sunday Times
'A joy to read'
Daily Telegraph
*A Scotsman Book of the Year*
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Edgar finalist Mina's rambling sequel to 2019's Conviction, Anna McDonald and Fin Cohen, a pair of podcasters whose spouses left each of them for one another, go looking for Lisa Lee, a little-watched maker of videos about urban exploring who went missing after discovering a small silver casket in an abandoned French chateau. Now, the casket, an artifact whose legend purports to offer proof of Pontius Pilate's conversion to Christianity and the resurrection itself, is up for auction in Paris, and Anna and Fin decide to head there to investigate Lisa's whereabouts. They're contacted by Bram van Wyk, a mysterious South African art expert who knows the casket's recent history and offers to help the podcasters track down Lisa and find out how the object made its way to a Parisian auction house, where deep-pocketed religious collectors are ready to bid fortunes to possess it. A long, confusing journey through Europe ensues, and it becomes clear Bram is in deep trouble if he doesn't wind up with the casket. Muddled subplots eventually reveal a murky connection to a real-life crime. This convoluted art heist caper isn't one of Mina's best.
Customer Reviews
Disappointing
I am afraid that the writer so confident and assured in her home city is lost when she leaves it. A plot worthy of Dan Brown, which is not a compliment, and a cast of grotesques did not engage me