Enough people have asked me this question that I figured I finally need to answer it: other than reviewing movies, what have I been doing? I’ve been writing something new. Except it’s old.

Back in 2007, inspired by a trip to Florence and Milan, I wrote a mystery called Fake. Its protagonist was a thirtyish man on a post-divorce trip to Florence who’s recruited by a shady-but-cute operator to help find out who’s behind a scam involving looted Holocaust art. I finished it, ran it through my critique group, and finally figured out it wasn’t very good. So I shelved it, thinking I’d go back and revise it someday.

Fast-forward seven years...

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