This is the third book I have read in the Zelda Richardson series which I find quite unique as a whole due to its focus on the world of art museums in the Netherlands. Ms Alderson describes the artworks that feature in her stories with rich clarity which I really enjoy. She clearly has an extensive knowledge of this subject which she shares in an interesting and entertaining way and makes me long to visit the art museums in the Netherlands.
Zelda has is finally coming together. She has a paying job in a local museum as a researcher, her relationship with Jacob is going well and she has a great apartment in a building inhabited mainly by artists. She has befriended on of the artists, a young Croatian woman called Gabriella, and has even started making her own stained glass windows again. Life couldn't be better until a series of brazen art thefts starts rocking the art world in the Netherlands.
Skilled and daring thieves break into the poorly secured museums around the country and steal a selection of rather unusual artworks. They do not take the most valuable and well know pieces, but rather the more obscure artworks by famous artists. A card saying the art has been taken by Robber Hood due to the poor security of national treasures is left behind at each location.
When Gabriella suffers a diabetic collapse in front of Zelda who takes her to her apartment to administer her insulin, Zelda sees what she believes to be a copy of one of the stolen pieces together with an in-progress copy on Gabriella's easel. She is attacked by a visitor to Gabriella's apartment while she is still there and incurs a serious head injury which affects her memory, making it unreliable.
Soon after Zelda returns to work, her museum becomes a victim of Robber Hood and due to various circumstances surrounding her attack and what she thinks she saw in Gabriella's apartment, Zelda becomes a suspect and is suspended from her job. She teams up with a well-known art theft private investigator hired by the museum to find the missing art and sets of on an adventure to clear her name and find the missing artwork before it disappears forever.
This is my favourite of the Zelda Richardson series so far. The character of Zelda has matured and become a bit more of a thinker and a planner. I enjoyed the step up in her relationship with Jacob and the introduction of a bit of a more stable romance which in no way detracted from the main storyline. All in, a well research, well written and entertaining read.
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Marked For Revenge has received a Chill with a Book Readers' Award. I have read all three of Ms Alderson, Zelda Richardson series and all are wonderfully interesting in art crimes. They are well written and offer a frightening insight in this unbelievable world of crime. The author knows her subject and cleverly conveys her knowledge through a gripping story. Pauline Barclay - Founder Chill Awards
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- Suzi StembridgeReviewed in the United Kingdom on July 15, 2019
A complex story, a fascinating glimpse into an art world of thieves on a European & Balkan journey.
- Christopher AnsteadReviewed in Canada on April 7, 2020
Action packed read with lots of travel.
- RosaReviewed in Australia on August 28, 2019
A MUST-READ FOR ART- AND MYSTERY-LOVERS
