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Daniel Silva, author of A Death in Cornwall

Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into London to attend a reception at the Courtauld Gallery celebrating the return of a stolen self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh. But when an old friend from the Devon and Cornwall Police seeks his help with a baffling murder investigation, he finds himself pursuing a powerful and dangerous new adversary. The victim is Charlotte Blake, a celebrated professor of art history from Oxford who spends her weekends in the same seaside village where Gabriel once lived under an assumed identity. Her murder appears to be the work of a diabolical serial killer who has been terrorizing the Cornish countryside. But there are a number of telltale inconsistencies, including a missing mobile phone. And then there is the mysterious three-letter cypher she left behind on a notepad in her study.

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Week of February 17, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of February 17th include WANDERING STARS, a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, in which Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family; A DEATH IN CORNWALL, the 24th installment in Daniel Silva’s action-packed Gabriel Allon series, which finds the art restorer and legendary spy pursuing a powerful and dangerous new adversary when an old friend seeks his help with a baffling murder investigation; SHELTERWOOD by Lisa Wingate, a sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children caught in the storm of land barons hungry for power and oil wealth; and the paperback original THE DRESSMAKERS OF LONDON, a heartfelt work of fiction from Julia Kelly about estranged sisters who inherit their late mother’s dress shop in World War II London.

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