The Lost Panel

A riveting blend of art, history, and high-stakes intrigue. The Lost Panel pulls
you in from the first page and never lets go. The twists are sharp, the mystery is
layered, and the ending is as clever as it is satisfying. Fans of Dan Brown and Steve
Berry will devour it.
Dr. Noah Charney, Art Historian and Best-Selling Author of The Art Thief
For six centuries, the world has worshipped Jan van Eyck's Ghent altarpiece. Few
know that the painter hid something inside it. Fewer still know he killed to
protect it.
When a fragment of a lost Nazi diary surfaces in Ghent, young art historian Sophia Rossi
stumbles onto a trail long dismissed as myth-a trail leading to the missing panel of the
altarpiece, stolen in 1934 and never recovered. The diary hints at something far older
buried within the painting's creation: a relic smuggled out of the Holy Land, encoded
into van Eyck's brushwork and protected by murder, theft, and centuries of silence.
As Sophia follows clues hidden in monastic archives, cathedral blueprints, and the
pigment chemistry of fifteenth-century oil paint, someone else is following her. Mr.
W-reclusive billionaire, obsessive collector, and master of secrets-has spent decades
building a private empire of stolen beauty. Now he wants van Eyck's masterpiece, and
he never loses. Some artworks are stolen for money, some for power, and some because
the truth painted into them was never meant to be found.