Framed - John M. Green

Framed

By: John M. Green

Paperback | 2 August 2022

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When art conservator JJ Jego spots a long-lost masterpiece through the window of a luxury apartment, she’s drawn into a dark web of intrigue, deception and murder.

JJ spies what she believes is a priceless Van Gogh. Except it can’t be … that painting, Six Sunflowers, was destroyed during World War II. She also glimpses what looks like a Rembrandt, one stolen in the infamous 1990 robbery at the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston.

JJ sets out on a mission to discover if these works are fakes or genuine. But when she gets in too deep, she is forced to seek help from her estranged father, a Sydney detective.

From the pubs of Belfast to the boardrooms of Monte Carlo and the shores of Sydney Harbour, this gripping art heist thriller exposes a shadowy underworld where JJ crosses paths with a global organised crime empire in her pursuit to solve some of art history’s biggest mysteries.

‘You can always rely on John M. Green for a cocktail of cutting-edge technology, international intrigue and violence, but what’s most remarkable about Framed is how it makes art verification just as exciting as murder.’ Jack Heath, author of Kill Your Brother

Staff Review by Scott Whitmont

Art conservator JJ Jego is happily house-sitting in her boss’s swanky luxury apartment on Sydney’s foreshores when she glimpses a few paintings through a neighbour’s parted curtains.

Given her expertise, she recognises the image of Van Gogh’s masterpiece, Six Sunflowers, known to have been destroyed during World War II. Then she spies what looks like a Rembrandt, infamously stolen from a Boston gallery in 1990. Surely they must be fakes?….but what if they’re not? Can she somehow finagle meeting the neighbour to get a closer look?

So begins one of this season’s best crime thrillers – an art heist mystery that will simultaneously grip readers while it entertains and educates, its action moving from Sydney to Belfast, Paris and Monte Carlo.

JJ reluctantly finds herself in the firing line of a ruthless global organised crime empire as she doggedly pursues the answers to some of art history’s biggest mysteries.

Bestselling thriller writer John Green, with this, his sixth novel, clearly has put in the research hard yards. The latest techniques and equipment used in art detection are meticulously explained along with the real-life history of the multiple masterpieces that feature in the story.

Beneath the surface of Framed, however, is a lot more than paint pigments and canvas wefts and warps. Without labouring extraneously or detracting from the action-filled narrative, Green also sheds light on issues beyond the world of art. Social anxiety, divorce, bipolar disorder, coercive control and dyslexia all make their way into the story, ensuring a novel which offers far more sophistication and cerebral food for reflection than your average thriller.

This book will, no doubt, have readers rushing to the Art Gallery of NSW and other galleries around the world to appreciate priceless art treasures through new eyes. At its very end, happily, Framed leaves the door well and truly open for a sequel – one which readers will eagerly anticipate.

About the Author


Author of Born to Run, Nowhere Man and the Tori Swyft series.

When it dawned on John that what got him up in the morning was writing, not his day job, he quit the job. That was after 30 years in executive life. He was then an executive director in a leading investment bank. Earlier, he’d been a partner in 2 major law firms, and a director of a publishing house.

John's also a well-known business writer and commentator. His pieces have appeared in a variety of Australian and overseas publications including: ABC Drum Online, Company Director, Business Spectator, The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, The Age, The Bulletin, and the UK’s Financial Times.

As well as writing, John's on the governing council of the National Library of Australia, is a board member of two stock-exchange-listed corporations and not-for-profits, as well as a co-founder of Pantera Press. He lives in Sydney with his wife, a sculptor.

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