Excerpt from Stealing Mona Lisa by Carson Morton, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

"Is anyone here?" he heard the guard say as the young man slipped through the gallery entrance past the sign he had posted. Crossing the main atrium, he entered a corridor used only by mu­seum staff. He hurried to a side entrance, produced a key, and un­locked the door. Letting himself out, he closed the door behind him and walked off into the gathering evening.

From Stealing Mona Lisa by Carson Morton. Copyright © 2011 by the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Press, LLC.