TY  - BOOK
AU  - McIntosh, Fiona,
TI  - The pearl thief
SN  - 9780143785095
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2018///.
CY  - [Melbourne, Victoria]
PB  -  Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Books, 
KW  - Art thefts
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Art museum curators
KW  - War criminals
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - World War, 1938-1945
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - lcgft
N2  - Severine Kassel is asked by the Louvre in 1963 to aid the British Museum with curating its antique jewellery, her specialty. Her London colleagues find her distant and mysterious, her cool beauty the topic of conversations around its quiet halls. No one could imagine that she is a desperately damaged woman, hiding her trauma behind her chic, French image. It is only when some dramatic Byzantine pearls are loaned to the Museum that Severine's poise is dashed and the tightly controlled life she's built around herself is shattered. Her shocking revelation of their provenance sets off a frenzied hunt for Nazi Ruda Mayek. Mossad's interest is triggered and one of its most skilled agents comes out of retirement to join the hunt, while the one person who can help Severine - the solicitor handling the pearls - is bound by client confidentiality. As she follows Mayek's trail, there is still one lifelong secret for her to reveal - and one for her to discover. From the snowy woodlands outside Prague to the Tuileries of Paris and the heather-covered moors of Yorkshire comes a confronting and heart-stopping novel that explores whether love and hope can ever overpower atrocity in a time of war and hate
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