Lost Panel

A riveting blend of art, history, and high-stakes intrigue. The Lost Panel pullsyou in from the first page and never lets go. The twists are sharp, the mystery islayered, and the ending is as clever as it is satisfying. Fans of Dan Brown and SteveBerry will devour it. Dr. Noah Charney, Art Historian and Best-Selling Author of The Art ThiefFor six centuries, the world has worshipped Jan van Eyck s Ghent altarpiece. Fewknow that the painter hid something inside it. Fewer still know he killed toprotect it. When a fragment of a lost Nazi diary surfaces in Ghent, young art historian Sophia Rossistumbles onto a trail long dismissed as myth a trail leading to the missing panel of thealtarpiece, stolen in 1934 and never recovered. The diary hints at something far olderburied within the painting s creation: a relic smuggled out of the Holy Land, encodedinto van Eyck s brushwork and protected by murder, theft, and centuries of silence. As Sophia follows clues hidden in monastic archives, cathedral blueprints, and thepigment chemistry of fifteenth-century oil paint, someone else is following her. Mr. W reclusive billionaire, obsessive collector, and master of secrets has spent decadesbuilding a private empire of stolen beauty. Now he wants van Eyck s masterpiece, andhe never loses. Some artworks are stolen for money, some for power, and some becausethe truth painted into them was never meant to be found.