The Borgia Portrait av David Hewson

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<p><i><b>A noble family, a legendary painting, a cursed palazzo. The new Venetian mystery from master storyteller David Hewson.</b></i><br><br>When Arnold Clover is recruited by Lizzie Hawker to help her look into her family inheritance, he cannot begin to guess the journey he is about to embark on. <br><br>Lizzie''s mother, an Italian countess, disappeared thirty years ago, presumed dead. Her father, a famous, some say infamous, music promoter, has just died and now the family home <i>Ca'' Scacchi</i>, a leaning palazzo in Dorsoduro, has fallen to her. When her mother vanished so too did a priceless painting, supposedly an erotic portrait of Lucrezia Borgia, which has captivated men for generations.<br><br>When a body is discovered in a hidden crypt beneath the checkerboard courtyard of the palazzo, other secrets are unearthed with it. Lying with the body is a document, a story of an episode in Casanova''s colourful life, and within it a set of clues that might lead to the location of