BEST HISTORICAL MYSTERY OF ITS YEAR — Readers' FavoriteA lost Renaissance masterpiece. A king's ransom in Nazi gold.And a love that will not die.Eddie Grant has built a billionaire's life in the Paris he loves —born there, shaped by it, returned to it after his war. But the cityholds a wound that won't heal. A decade ago, a criminal gang traceda long-lost Raphael painting to his father's door.
His father diedunder their torture. His wife and child were murdered.Now Jen Wetzmuller — Eddie's lover from twenty years ago, the womanhe abandoned and has never stopped regretting — arrives in Paris witha cryptic letter found beside her father's body. He was run down onthe streets of Sarasota. The letter changes everything.It points toward the most valuable piece of Nazi loot still missing:Raphael's Portrait of a Young Man was stolen in 1939 and wasdestined to become part of Hitler's new Louvre.
It vanishedat the end of the war — along with crates of gold bullion intended tofund a Fourth Reich. The cold case is suddenly very hot. And Eddie issquarely in the crosshairs of people who have killed before.The trail leads from the shadowed streets of Paris and the châteauxof the Loire Valley to the sun-bleached Gulf Coast of Florida — andback again.Treasure of Saint-Lazare is the award-winning first novel inthe Eddie Grant Saga — Paris thrillers rooted in history. The paintingwas real and is still missing.What readers and critics are saying:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "John Pearce has captured with brio both the excitementand the historical weight of the Nazi project to steal the culture oftheir enemies.
Fiction is more often than not more informative thanhistory. Bravo!"— Ronald Rosbottom, author of When Paris Went Dark⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Reminiscent of Steve Berry's The Amber Room — anaction-packed journey from Paris's glittering streets to Florida'sSarasota. A nice blend of history, art, and action."— Carole Roman, author of Navigating Indieworld⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A satisfying mystery, a surprising love story, and anup-close look into the dark days of Europe as WWII drew to a close."— Sharon Fawley, Readers' Favorite⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I literally could not put it down. Characters were sowell described that they seemed to be in the room with me."— Phillip Lisk, Amazon reviewer
