Die dritte Frau

He knows nothing about her - yet she knows what he is searching for. "The Third Woman" is a captivating novel about love and art, historical facts and literary fiction, as well as the eternal mystery of man and woman. Years ago, a young author wrote a historical novel about the mysterious Renaissance painting "Gabrielle d'Estrées and One of Her Sisters." Despite years of research, he was only partially able to solve the riddle surrounding the death of the beautiful duchess, who died under still unexplained circumstances just days before her wedding to French King Henry IV. Now, however, unknown sources are being sent to the author - from a direct descendant of the second woman in the painting. Unstoppably, the author becomes enchanted by the mysterious Camille Balzac, and an obsessive game of temptation and rejection unfolds, culminating in a potential plunge into the abyss: between past and present, love and hate, fiction and truth - man and woman. The novel about the most enigmatic painting in the Louvre and an obsessive love thematically connects to Wolfram Fleischhauer's bestseller "The Purple Line" - however, "The Third Woman" is a completely independent novel that can be read without prior knowledge.