The music lesson

By Katharine Weber

Subjects: Self-realization, Appreciation, Art thefts, Art thefts in fiction, Women art historians in fiction, Women art historians, Irish Republican Army in fiction, Vermeer, Johannes, in fiction, Fiction, Irish Republican Army

Description: The diary of a New York art historian as she keeps company a Vermeer painting, being held by the IRA for ransom. Alone in her lover's cottage in Ireland, Patricia Dolan admires the woman on canvas. "She's beautiful," she writes. By the author of Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear.