The Secret in the Wine Factory (The Art Avengers Mysteries)
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The Secret in the Wine Factory (The Art Avengers Mysteries)
Sale price
$21.99
Regular price $26.99
A forgotten wine factory. A vanished art collection. A secret worth killing for.
When art expert Richard Mueller arrives in the quiet Dutch town of Oudestad in 1962, he expects to recover a long hidden trove of masterpieces entrusted to him during the war. Instead, he finds an abandoned wine factory steeped in silence — and a chilling note waiting in his hotel room:
"René wants you to leave."
But René, Richard’s closest friend, died in the camps… didn’t he?
As Richard pries open the factory’s secrets, he uncovers the haunting truth of what happened inside its walls: the twenty Jews who survived there, the priceless Claes collection that vanished without a trace, and the powerful families whose reputations — and fortunes — were built on more than wine.
From Holland to Antwerp, Paris to Rome, and Buenos Aires to Geneva, Richard is drawn into a labyrinth of postwar intrigue involving blackmarket art dealers, ruthless Nazi fugitives, double agents, and a web of betrayals still deadly long after the war’s end. When a local woman dies clutching a priceless diamond and a hitman begins stalking him, Richard realizes he’s no longer searching for lost paintings —
He’s hunting the truth about a crime he was never meant to discover.
As past and present collide, Richard must confront the ghosts of his own history and the devastating secret hidden in the wine factory… before he becomes its next victim.
A sweeping historical thriller of art, identity, espionage, romance and redemption — where every clue has a price, and every survivor has a story.
When art expert Richard Mueller arrives in the quiet Dutch town of Oudestad in 1962, he expects to recover a long hidden trove of masterpieces entrusted to him during the war. Instead, he finds an abandoned wine factory steeped in silence — and a chilling note waiting in his hotel room:
"René wants you to leave."
But René, Richard’s closest friend, died in the camps… didn’t he?
As Richard pries open the factory’s secrets, he uncovers the haunting truth of what happened inside its walls: the twenty Jews who survived there, the priceless Claes collection that vanished without a trace, and the powerful families whose reputations — and fortunes — were built on more than wine.
From Holland to Antwerp, Paris to Rome, and Buenos Aires to Geneva, Richard is drawn into a labyrinth of postwar intrigue involving blackmarket art dealers, ruthless Nazi fugitives, double agents, and a web of betrayals still deadly long after the war’s end. When a local woman dies clutching a priceless diamond and a hitman begins stalking him, Richard realizes he’s no longer searching for lost paintings —
He’s hunting the truth about a crime he was never meant to discover.
As past and present collide, Richard must confront the ghosts of his own history and the devastating secret hidden in the wine factory… before he becomes its next victim.
A sweeping historical thriller of art, identity, espionage, romance and redemption — where every clue has a price, and every survivor has a story.