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The Other Rembrandt (2011)

by Alex Connor(Favorite Author)

3.53 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1402786948 (ISBN13: 9781402786945)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

SilverOak

review 1: I thought I would like this better because the premise sounded interesting however there were some elements of the theory behind the whole plot that didn't seem believable to me. I guessed who was going to turn out to be the villain pretty early on but when they were eventually unmasked their motive was unconvincing and what I felt were quite crucial details of what they had actually done were missing. I'm afraid I also got rather annoyed at times with what I assume were meant to be literary flourishes - sentences which sounded insightful when you first read them but when you thought about them some more were just meaningless! For example: "Memories, filled with the dust of poignancy, smoked around him" or "The rain had stopped and a truculent sun pitted the shiny road"... more or "As easy to spot as a coffin in a bread tin" or "soft like the inside of a robin's egg" - I mean, what's all about. Sorry, just couldn't fall in love with this book (glad I only paid 99p to download it).
review 2: The Other Rembrandt elevates the whodunit concept into the art world. Owen Ziegler is a struggling art gallery owner who is forced to sell his precious Rembrandt painting to a fellow art enthusiast. After being cheated, Ziegler is forced to take a loss and worry about keeping his gallery open. But Owen still has a card to play. A package of letters by Geertje Dircx that explains how many paintings were done by Rembrandt's monkey and not by the master himself. This discovery could overturn the art market by reevaluating each painting that was attributed to Rembrandt. It's so important that it leads to the gruesome death of Ziegler and forces his son Marshall to wade into the art arena. As more deaths keep happening, Marshall realizes that each death is modeled after each of Rembrandt's paintings. Marshall also knows that whoever murdered his father was someone within the art world and someone he knows. As he travels between Amsterdam, London and New York, more secrets about his father become revealed and he doesn't know who to trust. Connor does an excellent job with keeping the suspense going and the ending is quite unpredictable. You learn in the end that nothing is what it seems. less

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