There is a gallery beneath the cathedral.
Opens on Kickstarter on 3 November · Four finished gothic novels · The first hundred backers take all four ebooks for £15
A da Vinci supernatural thriller series
The Mona Lisa is not a portrait. It is a prison.
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The Painted Souls
The Mona Lisa Cage
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In 1503, Leonardo da Vinci agreed to paint a dead woman. He spent sixteen years refusing to let her go.
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For readers of The Da Vinci Code, Mexican Gothic, and The Historian.
“Slow building tension with an amazing creepy factor.”
★★★★★ Amazon review of The Mona Lisa Cage
“That is what immortality is, in the end. Not living forever. Forgetting, slowly, across centuries, every reason a person might have for being willing to die. I would rather have my few bad years and remember the reasons.”
Leonardo da Vinci, The Mona Lisa Cage
“Dark, creepy, and thought provoking.”
★★★★★ Goodreads review of Grandfather’s Pigments
A da Vinci supernatural thriller series
The Painted Souls
Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings were never portraits. Read the series in order, or begin where the hunger began, free.
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Why did Leonardo spend sixteen years on one portrait? The answer has been smiling at us for five centuries.
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Some collectors acquire beauty. Others pay a darker price for it. The cage was only the beginning.
Book Four · 17 November
Five hundred years of provenance. One name left off the bottom.
Some colors were never meant to exist
The Painted Souls · Leo Di Lux
Now in audio
Grandfather’s Pigments is a full-cast-of-one, candle-dark listen. The complete novel, unabridged, is now yours to own.
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About the author
Leo Di Lux
Leo Di Lux writes gothic supernatural thrillers where art history hides its teeth. Trained in folklore and too many hours in museum archives, Leo writes about the paintings that watch back, the collectors who pay in more than money, and the geniuses who knew exactly what they were containing.
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