Landscape of Lies

This book has been read, minor wear to edges of covers, previous owner signed first inner page. No other markings inner pages, spine intact, some creases. "Isobel Sadler is dead broke. The only thing she's got that might bring in any money is a stupendously bad painting that's been in her family for generations. It's so ugly she can't imagine it would be worth much, but the other night someone tried to steal it. Mystified, she turns to art dealer Michael Whiting, who identifies the painting as a 16th-century treasure map. If they can decipher the clues, Isobel's money troubles will be history. Whiting, however, isn't the only one who has figured out the painting's true a rival is one step ahead, and he'll stop at nothing to get his hands on the medieval treasure." Good Reads "Peter Watson was educated at the universities of Durham, London and Rome, and was awarded scholarships in Italy and the United States.

After a stint as Deputy Editor of New Society magazine, he was for four years part of the Sunday Times 'Insight' team of investigative journalists. He wrote the daily Diary column of the London Times before becoming that paper's New York correspondent. He returned to London to write a column about the art world for the Observer and then at The Sunday Times.

He has published three exposes in the world of art and antiquities and from 1997 to 2007 was a Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. He has published twelve books of non-fiction and seven novels, some under the pen name of Mackenzie Ford. He lives in London where his interests include theatre, opera and fishing." Good Reads