A painting has been hiding a secret for thirty years. Edmund Finch is the first person to look closely enough to find it.
It is 1974, and Edmund — senior conservator at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts — is a man who notices things other people miss.
The Dutch canvas that is to be restored at the museum looks routine. A seventeenth-century market scene, long overdue for conservation work. Edmund begins his examination the way he begins everything — methodically, without expectation.
Then he finds something impossible. And then something deliberate. And then something that has been waiting, with extraordinary care and patience, for exactly this moment.
The Second Signature is a cozy mystery for readers who love art forgery, wartime secrets, and protagonists who sees the world at an angle.
