B. A. Shapiro

I had to sit and read all day day because I opened up The Art Forger by Shapiro and could not put it down. Claire Roth is an artist who, for a living, creates high quality copies of masterpieces of art. When the director of a well known art gallery brings her a painting to copy she recognizes it as a Degas work that had been stolen from a museum twenty-five years earlier. As she begins to work she realizes that the painting the museum had was a copy as well. Good writing, good character buildup, good pacing, - a real spellbinder.… (more)