{"product_id":"9781786954954","title":"Time's Fickle Glass","description":"\u003cp\u003eTIME'S FICKLE GLASS is an extensively revised and rewritten version of the previously published novel A PORTRAIT IN TIME by Charles J. Schneider, with substantive alterations made to the original story in order to allow more seamless integration with the novel's planned sequel: THE ARRIVAL OF AN HOUR.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beautiful, nude woman and two equally-naked dead bodies mysteriously appear in the special-exhibit gallery of Musée d'Orsay, the famed Paris art museum. There is no evidence trail; and the only clue Paris detective Michèle Crossier has to work with is surveillance footage of the un-clothed woman, who looks identical to the museum's own Assistant Director: Susanne Bruante, a woman with a cut-throat reputation in the art-history world and a theory involving the famous Realist and Impressionist artists Gustave Courbet and Gustave Caillebotte, the 'singular' nude model used in their artwork, and her very own family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the Police Judiciare on her tail, Susanne finds herself a prime suspect in a surreal murder mystery that pulls in her family-members-from the present and the past. Faced with a woman who claims to be a relative from the nineteenth-century, Susanne-forced to come up with answers or endure more scrutiny from the police-must call in favors from some of the people she's loved and left...including an old boyfriend who just happens to be doing research on time travel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn intriguing, fast-paced, tightly-plotted and often-times steamy psychological thriller, TIME'S FICKLE GLASS defies categorization as it brings to the reader an enjoyable and exciting mixture of historical-fiction, romance, mystery, crime-drama, and time-travel science-fiction. Don't miss this first book in a two-part series which promises to bring fact-and-fiction to art lovers who harbor a sensual-taste for the narratively-creative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Double Dragon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46476990742769,"sku":"9781786954954","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781786954954_p0.jpg?v=1766427303","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781786954954","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}