A Dangerous Talent by Charlotte and Aaron Elkins
Description: Alix London is restoring a valuable painting and is thankful for the job. The daughter of a convicted art forger, once a notable art conservator, she is trying to make it in the art world with the baggage left by her father. A chance meeting with a newly rich art collector lands her a job to authenticate an undiscovered Georgia O’Keefe painting. Alix finds herself in New Mexico. What she doesn’t expect is that her talent becomes dangerous — even to the point of death. Hers!
Review
Georgia O’Keefe art fans will surely enjoy A Dangerous Talent by the Elkins husband & wife team. This book is also a must-read first for the next three books in the series. The reader needs to know how Alix got to where she is in those books; the path certainly wasn’t an easy one.
Alix calls her father Geoff, not Dad or Daddy, and began to do so long before his art forgery was discovered. Their relationship is strained. He calls her; she doesn’t call him. Most of the art world expects her to change her name; she doesn’t. Determined to carve her own path in the world of art, she doggedly moves forward — even if it does seem to be one inch at a time.
Then the tall & statuesque Chris LeMay enters the picture. Chris, who has tons of money, has a friend in Taos, New Mexico with an undiscovered painting by non-other than famed American painter, Georgia O’Keefe. AND she wants Alix to authenticate it AND Chris is picking up the tab for everything.
And that is just the tip of the iceberg regarding this story. Twists and sub-plots are there for the reader to enjoy and solve. The pacing of the book is quite good. When I personally thought the story might be starting to drag, I’d soon discovered it was adding another puzzlement to the equation.
Things get hairy for our Alix — and anyone who happens to be with her at the time. Quite an enjoyable mystery. Plus I learned more about Georgia O’Keefe, an added bonus. Rating: 4.5 stars, rounded to 4 stars
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