About the book: 2019 / For the first time in Russian - the newest book from the author of the international bestseller “Beautiful Variety.” "The Last Picture of Sarah de Vos" is "a surprising novel about fate, choice and the consequences of those choices, confidently playing in the territory of Tracey Chevalier's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' and Donna Tartt's 'The Goldfinch'" (Library Journal). The action begins in New York in the late 1950s, at a Manhattan charity party. When the guests leave, successful lawyer Marty de Groot discovers that the painting “At the Edge of the Forest,” which had been kept in his family for more than three centuries, has been replaced with a fake. This is believed to be the only surviving painting by Sarah de Vos, a painter of the Dutch Golden Age and the first woman admitted to the Amsterdam Guild of St. Luke (a professional association of artists). The police are powerless, but a private detective hired by de Groot soon gets on the trail of Ellie Shipley, a young Brooklyn restorer originally from Australia; According to the detective, Ellie may have something to do with the fake, and Marty de Groot decides to get to know the girl better... “Smith amazes the reader not only with the daring of his adventurous intrigue, but also with the masterly interweaving of three storylines, unfolding in three time layers and on three different continents. The picture in the title of the novel literally transforms the fate of the heroes...” (Washington Post).