The Portrait Artist Chester B. Himes Penguin Classics FFC|FXQ|FBC|FC Paperback 2025

The Portrait Artist Chester B. Himes Penguin Classics FFC|FXQ|FBC|FC Paperback 2025From an exciting new voice in historical fiction comes a lush and imaginative novel full of gossip, art and intrigue

and then his mother was murdered

the tabloid frenzy that their deaths inspired

The day of the disappearance

The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed

As Dryden pieces the clues together

the pakhan - the dangerous and beautiful Alexandra 'Lexy' Ilandryan

the Pope is banning books and branding works of art immoral

from her accent and repetitive phrases to fierce cravings for Armenian meat stew after being raised a vegetarian

'His style is easy and fluent

well liked and respected finds himself on trial for his life

Their vehicle is tampered with overnight and some of the locals appear to be anything but welcoming

is convinced that this is not in fact a suicide