The Mystery Of The Lost Cézanne Author Forename:M. L. with Detective Erlendur absent

with Detective Erlendur absent

Long haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from her mother

in a locked room

and presumably by someone within the monastery

emptying the valleys of sheep and filling the skies with smoke

The Mystery Of The Lost Cézanne Author Forename:M. L. with Detective Erlendur absentAntoine and Marine are investigating both a murder and the provenance of a mysterious painting. Could it be a genuine Cezanne? Pierre, a friend from Antoine Verlaque's cigar club asks him to visit a cranky old man named Rene, who thinks he may have discovered a Cezanne painting. But when they arrive, Rene is dead, the painting is gone and a beautiful American art history professor is in Rene's flat. Did she kill Rene? And where is the painting?