First in the Italian art-history crime series featuring English dealer and sleuth Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the best-selling masterpiece 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.

Iain Pears won the Getty Scholarship to Yale University and then worked for Reuters in Rome. He is the author of 'The History of Modern Painting' and the bestselling literary novel, 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'. He lives with his wife and son in Oxford.