Almost twenty-five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museumstill the largest unsolved art theft in historyone of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist. Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain with a powerful gallery owner by agreeing to forge the Degas in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But as she begins her work, she starts to suspect that this long-missing masterpiecethe very one that had been hanging at the Gardner for one hundred yearsmay itself be a forgery. The Art Forger is a thrilling novel about seeingand not seeingthe secrets that lie beneath the canvas.