1. Title: The Lover’s Portrait: An Art
Mystery
Author: Jennifer S. Alderson
Publisher: Traveling Life Press,
Amsterdam (CreateSpace)
Page Count: 263
Binding: Paperback (6x9), perfect bound
Categories:
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense/Mystery
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense/Amateur
Sleuth
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense/International
Mystery & Crime
Price: $10.99
ISBN-10 number: 1523489170
ISBN-13 number: 978-1523489176
Publication Date: June 24, 2016
Jennifer S. Alderson
Tele: +31 (6) 2146 9415
Email: jennifersalderson@gmail.com
Address: Sterkenburg 43, 1083VJ Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Website: www.jennifersalderson.com
Jennifer S. Alderson is the author of Down and Out in Kathmandu:
adventures in backpacking, the stand-alone prequel to The Lover’s Portrait.
Both books are part of an on-going stand-alone series following the adventures
of traveler and culture-lover, Zelda Richardson.
For booking presentations, media appearances, interviews, and/or book-
signings contact jennifersalderson@gmail.com. Book cover images,
photographs and more information about the author and her books are
available at www.jennifersalderson.com.
Cache of missing masterpieces found in Amsterdam
The Lover’s Portrait: An Art Mystery to be published by
Traveling Life Press on June 24, 2016
When a homosexual Dutch art dealer hides his gallery’s stock rather than turn
it over to his Nazi blackmailer, he pays with his life, leaving a treasure trove of
modern masterpieces buried somewhere in Amsterdam, presumably lost
forever. That is, until American art history student Zelda Richardson sticks her
nose into it.
After studying for a year in the Netherlands, Zelda scores an internship at the
prestigious Amsterdam Museum, where she works on an exhibition about
paintings and sculptures once stolen by the Nazis, still lying unclaimed in
Dutch museum depots almost seventy years later. When two women claim the
same painting, the portrait of a young girl entitled Irises, Zelda is tasked with
investigating the painting’s history and quickly finds evidence that one of the
two women must be lying about her past. Before she can figure out which one
it is and why, Zelda learns about the Dutch art dealer’s concealed collection.
And that Irises is the key to finding it all.
Her discoveries make her a target of someone willing to steal – and even kill –
to find the missing paintings. As the list of suspects grows, Zelda realizes she
has to track down the lost collection and unmask a killer if she wants to
survive.
On June 24, 2016 Jennifer S. Alderson’s second novel, The Lover’s Portrait:
An Art Mystery, will be published by Traveling Life Press as paperback and
eBook. This quirky, amateur sleuth mystery describes the plight of
homosexuals and Jewish artists in Europe during World War Two, as well as
the complexities inherent to the restitution of artwork stolen by the Nazis in
the 1930s and ’40s.
The Lover’s Portrait: An Art Mystery draws on the author’s experiences
gained while studying art history in the Netherlands and working for several
Dutch museums. Before moving to Amsterdam twelve years ago, Jennifer
worked as a journalist and website developer in Seattle, Washington.