The acclaimed author of "Last Voyage of the Valentina" crafts a beguiling new novel about a lost masterpiece that sends a New York antiques dealer on a journey back into his childhood to solve the mystery of the painting--and his own troubled life.

The acclaimed author of "Last Voyage of the Valentina" crafts a beguiling new novel about a lost masterpiece that sends a New York antiques dealer on a journey back into his childhood to solve the mystery of the painting--and his own troubled life.

A beguiling new novel from the internationally bestselling author of Last Voyage of the Valentina

When an elegant French antiques dealer dies in her adopted hometown of New York City, her son, Misha, is astonished to learn that she owned a priceless, uncataloged Titian known as * The Gypsy Madonna.Misha wonders how she could have kept such a secret from him, bonded inseparably as they were since his childhood in German-occupied France. Now with the discovery of the Titian masterpiece and the loss of his mother, he must at last journey back to Bordeaux to uncover the truth about The Gypsy Madonna * -- and himself.