A da Vinci supernatural thriller series
The Mona Lisa is not a portrait. It is a prison.
For five centuries the world’s most famous smile has been holding something in. Start the story free with Grandfather’s Pigments, the prequel novel, as an ebook or a full audiobook. Join the Painted Souls Insider Letter and I’ll send it straight to your inbox.
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Painted Souls · Book One
The Mona Lisa Cage
Out now
In 1503, Leonardo da Vinci agreed to paint a dead woman. He spent sixteen years refusing to let her go.
Out now in ebook, and free to read in Kindle Unlimited.
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For readers of The Da Vinci Code, Mexican Gothic, and The Historian.
“A captivating story.”
Early Goodreads review
“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
“Supernatural Leonardo da Vinci!”
★★★★ Amazon 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.
Prequel · Start Here
FREEA simple commission. A merchant’s wife. And an inheritance of pigments that were never meant to be ground. Free in ebook and audiobook.
Book One · Out now
Why did Leonardo spend sixteen years on one portrait? The answer has been smiling at us for five centuries.
Book Two · Preorder
Some collectors acquire beauty. Others pay a darker price for it. The cage was only the beginning.
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. Free for Leo’s readers, and out now at audiobook stores.
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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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