A Dangerous Talent (An Alix London Mystery) - Plot & Excerpts
In front of him was a grande cappuccino, untouched and cooling. Beside it his fingers drummed quietly on the table as he tried to reassess the convictions that only an hour ago had seemed like certainties. The session in the property room had upended everything. He had guessed from the beginning that the painting was a fake, and his hunch had turned into a lead-pipe cinch the minute he learned that the London woman was involved with it. His brief look at the picture in Liz’s office the previous afternoon had done nothing to change his mind, but then, this morning, with his chance to examine it at length, those certainties started getting fuzzy around the edges. It was a finer piece than he’d thought at first: arresting and evocative, and done with the unmistakable painterly flair that a previous case had taught him was Georgia O’Keeffe’s and Georgia O’Keeffe’s alone. Could it be genuine, after all? He was inclined now, despite London’s assertion to the contrary, to believe that’s just what it was.
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