August,1911: The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens in the two years before its recovery is a mystery. Many replicas of the Mona Lisa existand more than one historian has wondered if the painting now in the Louvre is a fakeswitched in 1911. Present day: art professor Luke Perrone digs for the truth behind his most famous ancestor: Peruggia. His search attracts an Interpol detective with something to prove and an unfamiliar but curiously helpful woman. SoonLuke tumbles deep into the world of art and forgerya land of obsession and danger. A gripping novel exploring the 1911 theft and the present underbelly of the art worldThe Last Mona Lisais a suspenseful taletapping into our universal fascination with da Vinci’s enigmawhy people are driven to possess certain works of artand our fascination with the authentic and the fake.