"Dead Weight"

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In 1942, an Antwerp family named Hartmann lost everything. Eighty years later, their granddaughter Eva is still waiting for it back. Rowan Voss is an independent antique picker who notices the wrong things in the right order. At a provincial Belgian auction, they find a small silver salt cellar — excellent provenance, excellent chasing, and a weight that isn't quite right. The deeper Rowan digs, the larger the fraud becomes: high-quality forgeries, nine looted families, and a Russian oligarch's art advisor who is very good at lying and very bad at being wrong. Then the auction dealer turns up dead, and obsession becomes something that could get Rowan killed. Dead Weight is the first in a series for readers who believe the most dangerous thing about a beautiful object is the story it's hiding. Dead Weight features a non-binary neurodivergent protagonist and is set in the Antwerp antiques and art crime world. I'm a debut indie author looking for thoughtful readers willing to leave an honest review on Amazon after reading.