**THE BRAND-NEW THRILLER FROM THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****'A TERRIFIC WRITER' MARK
BILLINGHAM****PETER MAY: OVER 5.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE**In a sleepy French village
the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week
later a famous art critic is viciously murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occurred more
than seventy years apart.Asked by a colleague to inspect the site of the former forensics
expert Enzo Macleod quickly finds himself embroiled in the investigation of the latter. Two
extraordinary narratives are set in train - one historical unfolding in the treacherous
wartime years of Occupied France the other contemporary set in the autumn of 2020 as France
re-enters Covid lockdown.And Enzo's investigations reveal an unexpected link between the
murders - the Mona Lisa.Tasked by the exiled General Charles de Gaulle to keep the world's most
famous painting out of Nazi hands after the fall of France in 1940 28-year-old Georgette
Pignal finds herself swept along by the tide of history. Following in the wake of Da Vinci's
Mona Lisa as it is moved from château to château by the Louvre she finds herself just one step
ahead of two German art experts sent to steal it for rival patrons - Hitler and Göring.What
none of them know is that the Louvre itself has taken exceptional measures to keep the painting
safe unwittingly setting in train a fatal sequence of events extending over seven
decades.Events that have led to both killings.The Night Gate spans three generations taking us
from war-torn London the Outer Hebrides of Scotland Berlin and Vichy France to the deadly
enemy facing the world in 2020. In his latest novel Peter May shows why he is one of the great
contemporary writers of crime fiction.
