Art History Mystery The Raphael Affair, Book 1, (Paperback)

from Tanya-dogearedcopy

Cozy mystery featuring Jonathan Argyll an Art History doctoral candidate from England, and Flavia di Stefano, an assistant on the Italian National Art Theft Squad. They are the trail of recovering a missing Raphael through the art auction houses and museums... The novel has all the tells of being...

from soniaandree

The plot is ok and characters are likeable, except for the main one, Argyll. I've found him to have less characterisation than Flavia or her boss, Bottando, and he looks too much like a comic relief you would find in movies: he is just being "silly" in general. I take him as a wimp, somewhat. I d...

from Lman

This is light-weight it has to be said. But then this book is also the beginning of another series with an interesting milieu, and despite this somewhat lack of depth, there is still a sense of verve, along with a large dose of vitality, in the details surrounding this tale. And the premise deliv...

from Eyejaybee

Iain Pears wrote two of my favourite literary novel. With the majestic Stone's Fall, he essentially redefined the historical novel, while his The Dream of Scipio features three parallel storylines that seamlessly transcend a span of nearly two thousand years. Before ascending to those lofty pinna...

from karenpossingham

The first in a wonderful detective series set mostly in Rome and involves a fictional art theft squad detective called Favia and an English art dealer called Jonathan. It is well written and you learn a lot about renaissance art along the way!