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Week of February 16, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of February 16th include THE UNRAVELING OF JULIA by Lisa Scottoline, a riveting psychological thriller in which a young widow inherits a mysterious Tuscan estate and finds herself thrust into a dangerous conspiracy; Daniel Silva's AN INSIDE JOB, a dazzling tale of murder, greed and corruption in which art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon must solve the perfect crime; SHOW DON'T TELL, Curtis Sittenfeld's second story collection, which explores marriage, friendship, fame and artistic ambition --- including a story that revisits the main character from her iconic novel, PREP; CLOSE YOUR EYES AND COUNT TO 10, a twisty thriller from Lisa Unger in which an extreme game of hide-and-seek turns deadly; and LORNE by Susan Morrison, the definitive biography of Lorne Michaels, the man behind America’s most beloved comedy show, “Saturday Night Live.”

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Daniel Silva, author of An Inside Job

Gabriel Allon has been awarded a commission to restore one of the most important paintings in Venice. But when he discovers the body of a mysterious woman floating in the waters of the Venetian Lagoon, he finds himself in a desperate race to recover a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci. The painting, a portrait of a beautiful young girl, has been gathering dust in a storeroom at the Vatican Museums for more than a century, misattributed and hidden beneath a worthless picture by an unknown artist. Because no one knows that the Leonardo is there, no one notices when it disappears one night during a suspicious power outage. No one but the ruthless mobsters and moneymen behind the theft --- and the mysterious woman whom Gabriel found in a watery grave in Venice. A woman without a name. A woman without a face.

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