A story of beautiful genius, a family’s love, a remarkable woman, and your father’s amazing journey. A story of the darkness cast upon them and the theft of all they hold dear. A story of deceit and murder.
Have you ever wondered what paintings would say if they could talk? If so, Chasing Vincent is one for you. Spanning multiple timelines from a war-torn Europe in 1942 to a modern age US in 2003, and told from multiple points of view, an unknown Vincent van Gogh painting is one of the voices you will encounter in this novel, which is an expansive tale of art, Vincent van Gogh, the atrocities of the Holocaust, the legal complications of restitution of stolen art, and a young woman whose family history transcends generations.
When Julie Tolle’s father suddenly dies, she decides to take his ashes with her to Europe to scatter them on Lagginhorn mountain in Switzerland, a place of significance in her family history. What she didn’t expect was that her journey there ends up mirroring her Jewish family’s plight sixty years earlier when they were fleeing the Nazis. She also didn’t expect to find a beautiful painting of a young woman who looks just like her, in the home of a rich Swiss banking family, to have to fight for her life, or to end up in a complicated legal battle back in the US.
Chasing Vincent is not a simple book. With its multiple timelines and POVs, and several different characters all in one way or another involved in Julie’s family history, this one requires a reader who isn’t easily intimidated when faced with a complicated, complex story that requires a certain amount of suspension of disbelief and juggles many different intellectual, artistic and political themes, mixed with action, romance and historical fiction.
Thriller – Historical fiction
Mostly Murders 
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