THE FINE ART OF LYING
完美謊言的藝術
內容介紹
「這本書就像一個我不該分享的秘密……但它真的太棒了，不分享不行！故事以紐約藝術界為背景，充斥著謊言、金錢和極度混亂的抉擇。」—— 瑞絲．薇斯朋(Reese Witherspoon)
「亞莉珊卓．安德魯斯就是曼哈頓上流社會的阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂。」—— 艾達·卡爾霍恩(Ada Calhoun，《紐約時報》暢銷作家)
繼好評如潮的處女作《消失的匿名小說家》(Who is Maud Dixon?)之後，驚悚小說家亞莉珊卓．安德魯斯(Alexandra Andrews)再次帶來引人入勝的全新力作。故事講述一名年輕的妻子兼母親，意外被捲入充滿富貴與特權的世界，而她一個輕率的錯誤，竟引發了一連串涉及謀殺與背叛的骨牌效應。
一切的起點，都是因為藝術。
正是克萊兒．巴斯特(Clare Bast)對藝術的熱愛，將她從紐約州上州那沉悶、一成不變的生活中拯救出來，這份熱情帶領她進入曼哈頓上東區那充滿文化氣息的世界，並在那裡遇見了傑德(Jed)——那位疼愛她、且家境富裕的丈夫。
儘管克萊兒付出了最大的努力——包括在女兒莎迪(Sadie)出生時毅然放棄那完成了半篇的博士論文——但在傑德那位於派克大道、屬於前 1% 頂級富豪的生活圈裡，她內心深處總覺得自己像個格格不入的冒牌貨。
直到某天，傑德新老闆那人脈廣闊的妻子，將克萊兒介紹給了圈內舉足輕重的朋友們——這裡有一位策展人、那裡有一位畫廊主，甚至還有遠在海外的藝術鑑賞家——克萊兒感覺自己靈魂中迷失的重要部分，似乎又重新活了過來。
更巧的是，她發現自己當年未完成的博士論文主角所創作的一幅重要畫作，此時正掛在一位極具魅力、散發著危險氣息的藝術交易商別墅裡時，克萊兒深信，這是命運在指引她走向屬於自己的歸屬……
直到她驚恐地發現，自己竟然置身於一場駭人聽聞的謀殺案現場，而那幅絕世巨作已被洗劫一空。
在錯誤的時間出現在錯誤的地點，警方調查所發現的每一條線索，全都直指克萊兒。
轉瞬之間，克萊兒被困在一個由無良交易商和國際罪犯交織而成的黑暗藝術世界中。她究竟把自己捲入了什麼樣的致命漩渦？而她又該如何全身而退，拯救自己與她的家人？
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作者介紹
曾在紐約和巴黎擔任記者、編輯及文案撰稿人。她的處女作《消失的匿名小說家》(Who is Maud Dixon?)已被翻譯成全球28種語言，並獲《紐約時報》、《美國國家公共廣播電台》(NPR)、《時代》雜誌、《紐約郵報》及《娛樂週刊》評選為年度最佳書籍／懸疑小說。她目前與丈夫及子女定居於布魯克林。
書評
"The Fine Art of Lying is propulsive from start to finish. Set against the backdrop of the New York art world, a love affair leads to a mysterious murder and a twist you won't see coming. Alexandra Andrews delivers with this riveting mystery." - Laura Dave, author of The Night We Lost Him
"“The Fine Art of Lying,” written with the panache of a suspenseful novel of manners, probes the machinations of the art market and a few of the murkier areas of financial management. Clare's only hope, she decides, is to find out for herself who killed Gabriel. The solution to that mystery seems entangled with the search for a stolen painting; it appears to Clare that someone is trying to frame her for several crimes. The hum for readers of this well-crafted book comes from seeing its determined protagonist try to foil that scheme while ensuring poetic justice." —Wall Street Journal
"Ruthless socialites, international intrigue, a torrid affair, a shocking murder, and a baffling art heist? Yes, please. With her playful, lightning-paced new mystery, Alexandra Andrews is monied Manhattan's very own Agatha Christie." - Ada Calhoun, author of Crush
"A wildly entertaining novel about art and ambition, money and greed, love and sex and betrayal and loyalty, plus for good measure theft and forgery and murder, with a fantastic finale.” - Chris Pavone, author of The Doorman
"Andrews puts this sharp observation to great use in this delicious story about Clare, who finds herself married into great wealth and power and then sees it all begin to slip through her fingers when a gallerist she was advising—OK, maybe not just advising—turns up dead." —Town and Country Best Books of the Summer
"Andrews entwines the language and imagery of color, texture, and art throughout this taut and well-written thriller. . . . A mystery bound up in astute social satire." — Kirkus (starred review)
"Alfred Hitchcock is long gone and so, sadly, not able to mount a film version of Alexandra Andrews' psychological thriller, “The Fine Art of Lying.” But with its privileged, extraordinarily rich Manhattan bluebloods, insights into the contemporary art market and, most essential, torridly illicit sexual couplings, “Lying” leads with the ingredients that served the Master of Suspense so well in, for instance, “Dial M for Murder.”" —Boston Herald
". . . gripping . . . . Andrews turns her gimlet eye on the lives and lies of New York's ultrawealthy to riotously entertaining effect. Readers won't be able to put this down." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"…[an] enjoyably swank novel." —Vulture, “8 New Books to Read This May”
". . . [A] thrilling mystery. Think Gossip Girl, but for adults." —Marie Claire
"We have a new Alexandra Andrews novel, “The Fine Art of Lying,” that has all the traits that I value in her earlier book: an interesting and complex focal character, lock-tight and suspenseful plotting, a sly sense of humor, all while being set in an interesting and well-illuminated milieu. . . . I hope it isn't another five before the next Andrews book, but if that's how long it takes, it's worth it." —Chicago Tribune
"I have a known weakness for murder mysteries and love of art history; Andrews combines both in this sinister and propulsive plot. . . . It has everything I want in a thriller: glamour, glitz, vibrant characters, a pressing question and a woman at the center of it all, trying to find herself." —PureWow
"Gripping" —Library Journal
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