Final Act of Juliette Willoughby, The : Ellery Lloyd

A Novel | Trade PB | Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense What deadly secrets did Juliette Willoughby paint into her missing masterpiece?  Everybody knows that in Paris in 1938, runaway heiress Juliette perished in a tragic studio fire, alongside her painting Self Portrait as Sphinx and her older, married lover.  Fifty years later, two Cambridge art-history students are confounded when they stumble across proof that the blaze was no accident. Not only that, but the painting may have survived and could expose the sinister legacy of Juliette’s aristocratic family.  But what does their discovery mean? And how is it connected to a brutal murder in present-day Dubai?  A tale of love and madness, obsession and revenge, The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby is ‘full of well-timed surprises, strange rituals and dreadful deaths – and splendid entertainment from first to last” (Wall Street Journal ).