IAIN PEARS is a journalist and art historian. After several years working for Reuters, he went to Yale University to complete his book on eighteenth-century British art, The Discovery of Painting. He now lives with his wife and children in Oxford
He has written seven novels featuring art historian Jonathan Argyll and Flavia di Stefano of Rome's Art Theft Squad. He is also the author of the acclaimed international bestseller, An Instance of the Fingerpost.