Perspectives

By: Laurent Binet

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Paperback | 12 May 2026

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Art, scandal, and murder in Renaissance Florence as a great art historian is charged to investigate the murder of a painter - from the author of the international bestseller HHhH.

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2026*

'There is no living writer whose new books I fall on with greater delight than Laurent Binet. . . Perspectives is a proper treat' Naomi Alderman

'A dazzling romp' Guardian

Florence,1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart.

Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden portrait scandalously depicting Maria de Medici, daughter of the Duke of Florence, as a naked Venus. Who is the murderer? Who made the painting? As the city erupts in chaos, Giorgio Vasari, the great art historian, is picked to lead the investigation.

Letters fly back and forth carrying news of plots and speculation about the killer's identity - between Maria and her aunt Catherine de' Medici, the queen of France; between Catherine and her secret agents; and between Vasari and his friend Michelangelo. And the truth, when it comes to light, is as shocking as the bold new artworks that have made Florence the red-hot centre of Europe.

Bursting with characters and colour, Perspectives is a mystery like no other that shows us Renaissance Florence as we've never seen it before - a dazzling, hugely entertaining novel of court machinations, murder and art.

'Doesn't get much better than this' Sunday Telegraph

'A racy and enjoyable detective story' The Times

'A dazzling romp' Guardian

'Funny and very gripping' Financial Times

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