Peter Watson: Landscape of Lies

Isobel Sadler is dead broke, and the only thing left that might bring in any money is a stupendously bad painting that s been in her family for generations. It s so ugly she can’t imagine it would be worth much … until someone tries to steal it. Mystified, she turns for advice to art dealer Michael Whiting, who identifies the painting as a 16th-century treasure map, pointing the way to a cache of priceless religious artifacts that were hidden by monks when Henry VIII was dissolving the monasteries. 409 pages. Paperback. Headline 1989. Slightly worn, no loose pages. (It has nothing to do with the 2011 movie by the same name!)