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Giotto’s Hand

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About the author

Iain Pears is a journalist and art historian. He is the author of six other novels featuring the art dealer Jonathan Argyll and Flavia di Stefano, as well as An Instance of the Fingerpost and The Portrait.

About the book

General Bottando of the art theft squad in Rome is in trouble: his theory that one master criminal, dubbed “Giotto”, is behind a string of big thefts has aroused the scorn of his arch enemy and rival, the bureaucrat Corrado Argan. He needs a result, and the confession of a dying woman may just provide a vital clue.

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In pursuit of Giotto, Bottando’s colleague, Flavia di Stefano, sets off for Florence, and the English art dealer Jonathan Argyll is dispatched to London and then to rural Norfolk . . . to discover a body and a mystery that could lead to the greatest art find of his career.