The Provenance at Palazzo Solimbergo

By Claire Ashdown

Venice, 1933. A masterpiece can be forged. So can an alibi.

Josie Calloway hires Vee Marchand to learn why the sharpest eye for forgery in Venice suddenly endorsed a painting he once distrusted. Before Vee can learn the reason, Selwyn Loxley is pulled from a canal after the Redentore fireworks. The city calls it another festival drowning. Vee notices the bruise behind his ear.

To expose the lie, she must read old pigments, a miscaptioned photograph and forty missing minutes while every suspect hides behind a lantern-lit alibi. Her most honest guide is Nico Fabris, a boat restorer with work-roughened hands, an instinct for dangerous currents and no interest in promises neither of them can keep.

In Venice, every reflection hides a second city. Before the sale closes, Vee must prove which beautiful surface conceals a forgery, and which conceals a murderer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HDMNYGMM
• ISBN13: 9798191766591
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"