The Braque Connection (Book 3): A Genevieve Lenard Novel

Estelle Ryan

Sep 2013 · Genevieve Lenard Book 3 · Estelle Ryan

About this ebook

Forged masterpieces. Hidden messages. A desperate swan song.

When world-renowned nonverbal communication expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard wakes up in an unknown location, drugged and kidnapped, it pushes the limits of her autism coping skills.

For the last year, Russian philanthropist and psychopath Tomasz Kubanov has been studying Genevieve just as she and her team have been studying him. Now forged paintings and mysterious murders are surfacing around her team, with evidence pointing to one of them as the killer.

Genevieve knows Kubanov is behind these senseless acts of violence. What she doesn't understand are the inconsistencies between his actions and the cryptic messages he sends. Something has triggered his unpredictable behaviour, something that might result in many more deaths, including those she cares for. 

Because this time, Kubanov has nothing to lose.

Ratings and reviews

Novel contains an unusual cast of characters. Art thieves, Interpol officers, computer hacker, insurance CEO. This team were involved in capturing a criminal responsible for murder and stealing original art work. Autistic Jenny has a way of connecting the dots by studying facial expressions and body language. People are framed and drugged as they follow clues to learn there is a mole amongst them.

A wonderfully twisty ride with an brilliant autistic woman and her cohorts that starts out with art forgeries and ends up with 3Dprinters and a crazy Russian !! Couldn't put it down and lost a good night's sleep because of it !!!

Very entertaining read. The relationships between the characters are hard to believe at times, combined with a great detective thriller and a intriguing plot, this is a must read, even if you're not into art!

About the author

 Estelle Ryan was born in South Africa and spent her childhood being surrounded by African beauty, nature and diversity of cultures. Her first trip to Europe at the tender age of 16 transformed her world into a much larger place, endless in its possibilities and places to explore. For most of her adulthood she's travelled all over the world, lived on a few continents, explored numerous cultures and is insatiable in the quest to still the hunger for more life experiences.

She's written for numerous international magazines, was the editor of a European lifestyle magazine and has seven out-of-print romance novels published under a pseudonym. With her interest in international politics, arts, crime, behavioural psychology, criminal psychology and music, she decided to combine all these elements in her writing. And so Genevieve and the team came into being.

She is an unabashed coffeeshopaholic. Good coffee, ambience and music in the perfect combination is all that is required to turn a mundane coffee shop into her 'office'. The appropriate coffee shop is chosen depending on the mood, the weather, the type and amount of work that needs to be done and, of course, the craving of the day. All of her books have been written in numerous coffee shops all over the world.