Deadly paintings, mysterious colours and hidden works…
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Art dealer Alex Clayton and conservator John Porter are thrilled to be previewing the
Melbourne International Museum of Art’s (MIMA) newest exhibition, until they
witness a museum worker collapse and badly damage a reportedly cursed painting.
Belief in the curse is strengthened when MIMA’s senior conservator Meredith
Buchanan dies less than twenty-four hours later while repairing the work. But Alex
and John are convinced there is a decidedly human element at work in the museum.
The evidence sets them on the trail of a mysterious painting that could hold a key to
Meredith’s death, and the stakes are raised higher when Alex is offered her dream job
at MIMA. Damaging the museum’s reputation will jeopardise her professional future.
The friends soon realise they are facing an adversary far more ruthless than they had
anticipated, and there is much more at risk than Alex’s career
