The Bookman's Tale: A Novel of Obsession by Charlie Lovett
Peter Byerly, an antiquarian book dealer, has escaped to England to try to recover from the death of his beloved wife, Amanda, when he finds a painting of her between the pages of a book. The problem is, the watercolor of Amanda was painted a hundred years before she was born.
Peter steals it and embarks on a quest to discover who the mysterious painter, B.B., was, and who the model was who sat for the portrait. This leads by various ways and means to a breakneck and bloody chase across England in pursuit of the one book that may -- or may not -- provide irrefutable proof that Shakespeare did in fact write Shakespeare and shut the Oxfordians up once and for all.
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