A Death in Cornwall
Published on 18. July 2024
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-0-00-871052-1 (ISBN)
Description
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER
A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve...
?Acclaimed internationally bestselling author Daniel Silva returns with the year's most anticipated new thriller.
'Allon is the 21st century Bond' - DAILY MAIL
Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into London to attend a reception at the Courtauld Gallery celebrating the return of a stolen self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh. But when an old friend from the Devon and Cornwall Police seeks his help with a baffling murder investigation, he finds himself pursuing a powerful and dangerous new adversary.
The victim is Charlotte Blake, a celebrated professor of art history from Oxford who spends her weekends in the same seaside village where Gabriel once lived under an assumed identity. Her murder appears to be the work of a diabolical serial killer who has been terrorizing the Cornish countryside. But there are a number of telltale inconsistencies, including a missing mobile phone. And then there is the mysterious three-letter cypher she left behind on a notepad in her study.
Gabriel soon discovers that Professor Blake was searching for a looted Picasso worth more than a $100 million, and he takes up the chase for the painting as only he can - with six Impressionist canvases forged by his own hand and an unlikely team of operatives that includes a world-famous violinist, a beautiful master thief, and a lethal contract killer turned British spy. The result is a stylish and wildly entertaining mystery that moves at lightning speed from the cliffs of Cornwall to the enchanted island of Corsica and, finally, to a breathtaking climax on the very doorstep of 10 Downing Street.
Supremely elegant and suspenseful, A Death in Cornwall is Daniel Silva at his best - a dazzling tale of murder, power, and insatiable greed that will hold readers spellbound until they turn the final page.
Readers love Daniel Silva:
'An author who is master of his craft' Reader Review ?????
'Silva gets better with each book' Reader Review ?????
'Superbly current, believable, and cutting to the bone' Reader Review ?????
A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve...
?Acclaimed internationally bestselling author Daniel Silva returns with the year's most anticipated new thriller.
'Allon is the 21st century Bond' - DAILY MAIL
Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into London to attend a reception at the Courtauld Gallery celebrating the return of a stolen self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh. But when an old friend from the Devon and Cornwall Police seeks his help with a baffling murder investigation, he finds himself pursuing a powerful and dangerous new adversary.
The victim is Charlotte Blake, a celebrated professor of art history from Oxford who spends her weekends in the same seaside village where Gabriel once lived under an assumed identity. Her murder appears to be the work of a diabolical serial killer who has been terrorizing the Cornish countryside. But there are a number of telltale inconsistencies, including a missing mobile phone. And then there is the mysterious three-letter cypher she left behind on a notepad in her study.
Gabriel soon discovers that Professor Blake was searching for a looted Picasso worth more than a $100 million, and he takes up the chase for the painting as only he can - with six Impressionist canvases forged by his own hand and an unlikely team of operatives that includes a world-famous violinist, a beautiful master thief, and a lethal contract killer turned British spy. The result is a stylish and wildly entertaining mystery that moves at lightning speed from the cliffs of Cornwall to the enchanted island of Corsica and, finally, to a breathtaking climax on the very doorstep of 10 Downing Street.
Supremely elegant and suspenseful, A Death in Cornwall is Daniel Silva at his best - a dazzling tale of murder, power, and insatiable greed that will hold readers spellbound until they turn the final page.
Readers love Daniel Silva:
'An author who is master of his craft' Reader Review ?????
'Silva gets better with each book' Reader Review ?????
'Superbly current, believable, and cutting to the bone' Reader Review ?????
Reviews / Votes
Praise for the series:'Allon is the 21st century Bond' - DAILY MAIL
'A world-class practitioner of spy fiction' - WASHINGTON POST
'Sexily brooding Allon... must be the most famous superspy not played by Daniel Craig' - DAILY TELEGRAPH
'[A] top-notch thriller by a writer with the inside track on spying' THE SUN
'A tense, thrilling adventure' HUFFINGTON POST
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 45 mm
Weight
655 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-871052-1 (9780008710521)
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Daniel Silva is the award-winning, No.1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-three novels, including The Unlikely Spy, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, The Messenger, Moscow Rules, The Rembrandt Affair, The English Girl and The Black Widow. His books are published in more than thirty countries and are best sellers around the world. He lives in Florida with his wife, CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel, and their two children, Lily and Nicholas.