Used Book – The Last Judgment, Iain Pears, Georges-Michel Sarotte

When Jonathan Argyll agrees, during a whirlwind trip to Paris, to take an obscure 18th-century painting back to Rome, he has no idea how far this simple act of cordiality will lead him. Strangely, the buyer, a man named Muller, immediately gives up the object and asks Argyll to resell it! The next day, however, Argyll learns that the said Muller was found dead after having been horribly tortured. This murder could be linked to the painting... As the last person to have seen Muller alive, Jonathan is all the more involved because his long-time friend, Flavia, is leading the investigation.

From Rome to Paris via England, the two will uncover a complex case of betrayal and inheritance, which will lead them on the trail of an old resistance network dating back to the troubled period of the German Occupation.