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The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby

A Novel

Audiobook
3 of 5 copies available
3 of 5 copies available

"Read this in about two sittings—absolutely loved it. Dazzlingly clever and beautifully twisty. Don't miss it!!"—Emilia Hart, author of Weyward

The gripping follow up to the "smart, stylish, and savage" (People) New York Times bestseller and Reese's Book Club pick The Club—a twisty mystery involving a cursed wealthy family and a Surrealist painting which holds the key to three suspicious deaths over the course of a century.

Some women won't be painted out of history . . .

Everybody knows that in 1938, runaway heiress artist Juliette Willoughby perished in an accidental studio fire in Paris, alongside her masterpiece Self Portrait As Sphinx.

Fifty years later, two Cambridge art history students are confounded when they stumble across proof that the fire was no accident but something more sinister. What they uncover threatens the very foundation of Juliette's aristocratic family and revives rumors of the infamous curse that has haunted the Willoughbys for generations.

But what does their discovery mean? And how is it connected to a brutal murder in present-day Dubai?

A tale of love and madness, obsession and revenge, The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby unravels the riddle posed by a Sphinx who refuses to reveal her secrets . . .

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 29, 2024
      Bestselling husband-and-wife duo Paul Vlitos and Collette Lyons, writing as Lloyd, follow up The Club with an overstuffed art world mystery. In the middle of giving a press conference about the lucrative sale of a long-lost painting by British surrealist Juliette Willoughby, Dubai gallery owner Patrick Lambert is arrested for murder. The action then flashes back to 1991, when Patrick met his wife, Caroline, at Cambridge, and the pair stumbled on the late Willoughby’s journal in an unsorted box of memorabilia on campus. The journal’s contents appear to shed new light on Willoughby’s 1938 death in a fire, insinuating that someone close to her may have killed her as part of a long-running vendetta. Other mysteries—including the disappearance of Patrick and Caroline’s classmate at Cambridge and a Willoughby servant who went missing in the ’30s—crowd the narrative. Though the various plot strands eventually tie back to the murder accusation that kicks things off, many readers will find that they’re no longer invested in finding out who Patrick may have killed, and why. A too-convenient payoff doesn’t help matters. This is a letdown. Agent: Hillary Jacobson, CAA.

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