Author(s): Ellery Lloyd

Crime Fiction

Some women can't be erased from history... A story of love and madness, of obsession and revenge.

Paris, 1938: Runaway heiress Juliette Willoughby perishes, with her married lover, in an accidental studio fire alongside her Surrealist masterpiece, Self-Portrait as Sphinx.

Cambridge, 1991: Two art history students stumble across proof something sinister was at play in Juliette's death, threatening to expose the long-buried secrets of the artist's aristocratic family.

Dubai, now: An art dealer is accused of the brutal murder of his oldest friend - the last surviving member of the Willoughby dynasty. Three suspicious deaths over the course of a century. Is the key to unlocking them all hidden in Juliette Willoughby's lost painting?

'Intoxicating, enthralling, compelling' Harriet Tyce

'Bold and ambitious and consuming from start to finish' Louise Candlish

'A stunning, intricately plotted and clever mystery' Claire Douglas

'Think The Secret History meets Saltburn' Holly Watt