The Item - Hoitinga, Hendrik
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A piece of art, lost for centuries, turns up but is subsequently stolen. Was it real, or was it a fake? Art assessor, widower Sam Price, goes in search of the truth. Take a journey with this very item, from distant past towards the present, travelling across continents and seas. Walk in the shoes of Viana Vanetti, the first owner of the item, sail the seas with Pietro, master of a three masted galleon. Meet a tin miner from Cornwall, a Peruvian youngster, a doctor and the daughter of a wealthy New Yorker. While Sam researches it's provenance, the story jumps from the present to the past to…mehr

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A piece of art, lost for centuries, turns up but is subsequently stolen. Was it real, or was it a fake? Art assessor, widower Sam Price, goes in search of the truth. Take a journey with this very item, from distant past towards the present, travelling across continents and seas. Walk in the shoes of Viana Vanetti, the first owner of the item, sail the seas with Pietro, master of a three masted galleon. Meet a tin miner from Cornwall, a Peruvian youngster, a doctor and the daughter of a wealthy New Yorker. While Sam researches it's provenance, the story jumps from the present to the past to follow the lives it has touched and he encounters four different women. Will one of these become his new love? And what secrets do his great-grandfather's journals contain which may help find the missing artwork and solve the crimes?
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Hendrik Hoitinga was born in Leeuwarden, Friesland, in the Netherlands and emigrated to New Zealand at 10. He travelled extensively during his teens and into his twenties and married his wife in Auckland in 1980, before relocating to the UK in 1990. They have two children. Hendrik worked in retail for over 26 years but a change of direction in the mid nineties when he and his wife were commissioned and ordained as officers for the Salvation Army. They served in England, Belgium, Wales and Scotland. Hendrik has been able to focus on his writing since he retired in 2017. Now a grandfather living in Wick in Scotland, he still loves travelling, music from the sixties and seventies and collects Dutch comic books.