NBtM: False Light by Claudia Riess

Congratulations to tour winner Mary C.

Thank you for your interest in hosting this tour, but all stops are filled.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Name Before the Masses Tour for False Light:An Art History Mystery by Claudia Riess, a Mystery available now from Level Best Books. The tour will run every Thursday for 12 weeks starting on May 28, and Claudia Riess is available for guest post and interviews.

Claudia Riess will be awarding a $50 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

Academic sleuths Erika Shawn, art magazine editor, and Harrison Wheatley, a more seasoned art history professor, set out to tackle a brain teaser.  This time the couple—married since their encounter in Stolen Light, first in the series—attempt to crack the long un-deciphered code of art forger Eric Hebborn (1934-1996), which promises to reveal the whereabouts of a number of his brilliant Old Master counterfeits.  (Hebborn, in real life, was a mischievous sort, who had a fascination with letters and a love-hate relationship with art authenticators.  I felt compelled to devise a puzzler on his behalf!)

After publication of his memoir, Drawn to Trouble, published in 1991, he encrypts two copies with clues to the treasure hunt.  On each of the title pages, he pens a tantalizing explanatory letter.  One copy he sends to an art expert; the second, he releases into general circulation.  The catch: both books are needed to decipher the code.

When the books are at last united 25 years later, Erik and Harrison are enlisted to help unearth their hidden messages.  But when several research aides are brutally murdered, the academic challenge leads to far darker mysteries in the clandestine world of art crime.  As the couple navigate this sinister world, both their courage under fire and the stability of their relationship are tested.

May 28: Welcome to My World of Dreams
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June 4: All the Ups and Downs
June 11: Lisa Haselton's Reviews and Interviews
June 18: Fabulous and Brunette
June 25: Danita Minnis
June 25: T's stuff
July 9: Long and Short Reviews
July 16: Candrel's Crafts, Cooks, and Characters
July 23: The Avid Reader
July 30: Hurn Publications - review only
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August 13: Becoming Extraordinary - review only
August 13: Our Town Book Reviews - review only