The Gauguin Connection
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Estelle Ryan
Murdered artists. Masterful forgeries.Art crime at its worst.A straightforward murder investigation quickly turns into a quagmire of stolen Eurocorps weapons, a money-laundering charity, forged art and high-ranking EU officials abusing their power.As an insurance investigator and world renowned expert in nonverbal communication, Dr Genevieve Lenard faces the daily challenge of living a successful, independent life. Particularly because she has to deal with her high functioning Autism. Nothing - not her studies, her high IQ or her astounding analytical skills - prepared her for the changes about to take place in her life.It started as a favour to help her boss' acerbic friend look into the murder of a young artist, but soon it proves to be far more complex. Forced out of her predictable routines, safe environment and limited social interaction, Genevieve is thrown into exploring the meaning of friendship, expanding her social definitions, and for the first time in her life be part of a team in a race to stop more artists from being murdered.
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Author
Estelle Ryan
Pages
426
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published Date
2012
ISBN
148012298X 9781480122987
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"The mystery in this book managed to hold my interest throughout and even managed to surprise me a few times. While many characters kind of start out as stereotypes (the smooth criminal, the big thug, the loud angry cop &c) they develop well even in the one book and are interesting and vibrant. I did feel that the author leaned a bit too hard sometimes on Genevieve's "quirks" (ESPECIALLY her literal-mindedness, like even if you don't understand idioms "serious as a heart attack" isn't really difficult to parse, stuff like this comes up multiple times in every single conversation and it gets pretty old) but I did like that despite a few characters being put off by her in the beginning, the good guy characters are shown to change their behaviour to accommodate her needs instead of her needing to act more neurotypical. There is a hint of a developing romance because of course there is and it's not very interesting."
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