β Scribed by Mason, Jamie
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A hair-raising, atmospheric thriller from the acclaimed author of the βripping goodβ (The New York Times ) novel Three Graves Full , inspired by the real-life unsolved theft of a seventeenth-century painting.
Twenty-eight seconds.
In less than half a minute, a home-security camera captures the hidden resolve in fourteen-year-old Carly Liddell as she fends off a vicious attack just inside her own front door. The video of her heroic escape appears online and goes viral. As the view count climbs, the lives of four desperate people will be forever changed by whatβs just barely visible in the corner of the shot.
Carlyβs stepfather is spurred to protect his darkest secret: how a stolen paintingβfour hundred years old, by a master of the Dutch Golden Ageβhas come to hang in his suburban foyer. The art dealer, left for dead when the painting vanished, sees a chance to buy back her life. And the double-crossed enforcer renews the hunt to deliver the treasure to his billionaire patronsβeven if he has to kill to succeed.
But itβs Carly herself, hailed as a social-media hero, whose new perspective gives her the courage to uncover the truth as the secrets and lies tear her family apart. **
Teenagers -- Fiction
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