Isabellas Painting, Ellen Butler
Isabellas Painting, Ellen Butler
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Isabella's Painting

Author: Ellen Butler

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Unabridged: 7 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/04/2020


Synopsis

Peeling back layers of lies could save a masterpiece or reveal a killer.

After a long week lobbying on Capitol Hill, all Karina Cardinal wants to do is chill with Netflix and her boyfriend, Patrick Dunne. Instead, she's slipping her aching feet into red stilettos for his parent's annual holiday bash. When she accidentally interrupts Patrick's father in his study, her embarrassment is tempered by suspicion that Martin Dunne and his dapper, secretive guest are hiding something. Maybe the painting she barely glimpses right before it disappears behind a secret panel.

An internet search raises her curiosity to full-blown alarm. If she's right, Martin is in possession of a stolen masterpiece. Infamous because everyone close to it has turned up dead. As in Mafia-style-execution dead.

As she's chewing over which instinct to follow—back off while she still can, or dig deeper for the truth—she crosses paths with FBI agent Mike Finnegan. An old friend and not-quite flame from her college days. When she looks into his warm, mocha eyes, she's tempted to tell him everything.

Trouble is, she's already being watched. And the next move she makes could destroy innocent lives including her own.

About Ellen Butler

Ellen Butler is the internationally bestselling author of the Karina Cardinal mystery series. Her experiences working on Capitol Hill and at a medical association in Washington DC inspired the mystery-action series. Multiple books in the series have hit #1 on Amazon bestseller lists in the US and abroad. Book critics call the Karina Cardinal mysteries "intelligent escapism" and "unputdownable adventures that will take readers on an electrifying yet light-hearted and humorous journey." Butler is also the author of the award-winning historical suspense novel The Brass Compass. The Brass Compass has won multiple awards for historical fiction, including a 2022 Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Book Award, a 2018 IndieReader Discovery Award, and a 2019 Readers' Favorite Silver Medal. Ellen is also the author of the award-winning Love, California Style romance series. "Sexy, sassy, with a side of funny," the Love, California Style series is for those who enjoy Hallmark Hall of Fame-type romances. She won The Romance Reviews Readers' Choice Award in 2015 for her novel Planning for Love.


Reviews

Goodreads review by vvb

This mix of mystery and romance led me into the art world and introduced art heists. Loved the feature of Vermeer as he tops my list of favorite artists. As the protagonist is not a detective, it was interesting to see how she went about uncovering the mystery with her resources and skills. There is......more

I enjoyed this original story, the first in a new series by Ellen Butler, the story introduces us to our heroine Karina Cardinal and is a wonderfully written novel based on a true event and which had me hooked from page one. “In 1990 a Boston museum was robbed of $500 million worth of artwork”, in t......more

Goodreads review by Pam

Isabella’s Painting: A Karina Cardinal Mystery Book 1 is by Ellen Butler. This is a cute mystery novel that is fast-paced and even has a little humor in it. The characters are well-developed and the plot is interesting. It keeps your attention and is very easy to read. You can easily read it in one......more

Goodreads review by Tony

Molly Dunne (62, wife/mother) would not allow Karina Cardinal (30, narrator, lawyer, UVA JD), & Patrick Dunne (32, Karina’s BF) to sleep together in her house. It had been a rough night of socializing with the hobnob, drinking/food. Martin “Marty” Dunne (husband/father, Dunne & Jenkins Building & Re......more