Six top suspense novels about art, museums, and forgers

Called “an author to watch” by Booklist, Carol Snow has written numerous novels for teens and adults. A former contributor to Salon’s “Mothers Who Think” column, her writing has also appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books and Park City Magazine.

Snow holds a BA in psychology from Brown University and a MAT in English from Boston College. A native of New Jersey, she now splits her time between Cape Cod and Southern California.

[My Book, The Movie: Just Like Me, Only Better; My Book, The Movie: What Came First; The Page 69 Test: Bubble World]

Snow's new novel is The Girl on the Beach.

At CrimeReads the author tagged six "suspenseful reads about art and artists worth checking out." One title on the list:

Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth

Come for the behind-the-scenes look at the world of elite Los Angeles art galleries; stay for Wilson’s gorgeous, taut prose and propulsive
Wilson uses a chance encounter, twenty years after the near-drowning, to frame the narrative.

Read about another title on the list.

Mouth to Mouth is among Laura Leffler's ten top literary thrillers set in the artworld and Maris Kreizman's twenty-three wonderful short books.

Q&A with Antoine Wilson.

--Marshal Zeringue