Lost and Found in Paris A Novel
Lost and Found in Paris by Lian Dolan is a novel published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2022, featuring 320 pages in English. This story follows Joan Blakely, an art historian with a tumultuous past, as she embarks on an impulsive trip to Paris after a life-altering revelation about her husband. As an art courier, she carries valuable drawings, but a romantic encounter leads to unexpected twists involving lost art and personal discovery.
Readers will find a narrative rich in intrigue and adventure, as Joan teams up with Nate, a tech-savvy stranger, to unravel a mystery that intertwines her father’s legacy with a treasure hunt across the enchanting streets of Paris. The book explores themes of art, romance, and self-discovery, set against the backdrop of the city’s vibrant culture. With elements of mystery and suspense, this edition invites readers to experience a journey filled with unexpected revelations and the allure of the City of Light.
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“Fast-paced and colorful, with hints of The Goldfinch and Malibu Rising, and more than one pitch-perfect love story–Lost and Found in Paris sparkles like the City of Light itself and will have you flipping the pages quickly as you’re drawn deeply into its mysterious world of art, intrigue, and redemption.” –Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names
The ultimate escapist adventure in Paris, told with wit, style, and a touch of intrigue, by the popular and dynamic author of The Sweeney Sisters.
Joan Blakely had an unconventional childhood: the daughter of a globe-trotting supermodel and a world-famous artist. Her artist father died on 9/11, and Joan–an art historian by training–has spent more than a decade maintaining his legacy. Life in the art world is beginning to wear on her–and then one fateful afternoon her husband drops a bombshell: he’s fathered twins with another woman.
Furious but secretly pleased to have a reason to blow up her life, Joan impulsively decides to get out of town, booking a last-minute trip to Paris as an art courier: the person museums hire to fly valuable works of art to potential clients, discreetly stowed in their carry-on luggage. Sipping her champagne in business-class, she chats up her seatmate, Nate, a good-looking tech nerd who invites her to dinner in Paris. He doesn’t know she’s carrying drawings worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
But after a romantic dinner and an even more romantic night together, Joan wakes up next to her new lover to discover the drawings gone. Even more shocking is what’s been left in their place: a sketch from her father’s journals, which she thought had been lost when he died on 9/11, and a poem that reads like a treasure hunt.
With Nate as a sidekick, Joan will follow the clues all over Paris–from its grand cathedrals to the romantic bistros to the twisty side streets of Montmartre–hoping to recover the lost art, and her own sense of adventure. What she finds is even better than she’d expected.
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