Clearly, the character and personality of Vincent Van Gogh inspire writers! After the publication of Secret de Van Gogh by Eric Mercier at La Martinière in March, another suspense novel around the Dutch painter has recently reached bookstores: The Van Gogh Conspiracy. This one is by Jonathan Santlofer, himself a painter based in New York. And this is not the first time that he is interested in an art monument!
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“The Van Gogh Conspiracy” by Jonathan Santlofer is the sequel to “The Monna Lisa Legacy”
Indeed, French readers were able to discover last year, still in Cherche-Midi, another novel by Jonathan Santlofer on painting and, above all, the mysteries surrounding some of the best-known works, mixing historical facts and imagination. In The Mona Lisa Legacythe writer featured Luke Perrone, an art historian with the particularity… of being the grandson of Vincenzo Peruggia, known for having stolen The Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in 1911. If this first volume of Perrone's investigations delved behind the scenes of this crime, The Van Gogh Conspiracy takes us into the world of forgers in the footsteps of John Decker, a painter who really existed (like the thief Perrugia!) and who made a name for himself in Hollywood, where he painted the portraits of the stars of the big screen . So, when Luke Perrone discovers a self-portrait of Van Gogh under a Decker painting, it's the start of a new affair, still in the company of Interpol agent John Washington Smith and Alexis Verde!
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“The Van Gogh Conspiracy”, a suspense novel recommended by Harlan Coben
And for those who may be hesitant to embark on this new reading, know that Harlan Coben, himself nicknamed “master of suspense”, compared the work of Jonathan Santlofer to that of two world-renowned authors. “ Fans of Dan Brown and Steve Berry will love it! », we can read from him on the cover of The Van Gogh Conspiracywhich partly reproduces his 1889 self-portrait exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay. Something to delight aficionados of Da Vinci Code, Angels and demons or even Lost Museumwho will travel here between Amsterdam and Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, where the painter was interned at his request after mutilating his ear.
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