Review by Booklist Review
Lily loves her job as an assistant to formidable Diana Gilden at the Tate Gallery. Lily is secretly a budding artist who has studied and copied the styles of some of the top painters. She knows them well enough that when Diana sets up an exhibit to honor the recently deceased Picasso, Lily shocks the museum's visitors by claiming that Picasso's Woman Laughing is a forgery. Her claim disrupts the exhibition and threatens both Diana's and her jobs. Bad becomes worse when Lily, herself, is accused of being the forger, and she has to find the culprit and save her reputation. The story is told alternatively from Lily and Diana's viewpoints as the reader slowly learns who is behind the paintings and the cover-up. Reay weaves these details of the protagonists' backstories into the unfolding plot. The suspense builds as Lily digs around in the archives and confronts wealthy collectors and museum officials in search of the truth in this fascinating look behind the scenes of art dealings and the workings of the museum.
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