The Series
Painted Souls
Renaissance-gothic supernatural thrillers built on the real secret history of Leonardo da Vinci and the Mona Lisa. Slow-burn, atmospheric, and properly dark.
For readers of The Da Vinci Code, Mexican Gothic, and The Historian.
The books
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Grandfather’s Pigments
Free as an ebook. The complete novel is now in audio, $4.99.
Out now.
The Mona Lisa Cage
In ebook and Kindle Unlimited. Also in audio, unabridged, $9.99.
Out now.
The Collector’s Tithe
Some collectors acquire beauty. Others pay a darker price for it.
Book Four. Releases 17 November 2026.
The Mona Lisa Cipher
The Mona Lisa has hung in the Louvre for five hundred years. Now they are going to move her, and something inside the paint has been counting the days.
Now in audio
Two Painted Souls audiobooks, sold direct and delivered instantly by BookFunnel: listen in the free app, stream in your browser, or keep the DRM-free MP3s.
Both audiobooks together
More than twelve hours in the dark. $12.99 for the pair instead of $14.98.
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About Leo Di Lux
Leo Di Lux writes dark, literary fiction at the place where history turns strange: candlelit, slow-burning, and haunted by the things great art refuses to give up. The Painted Souls series reimagines the secret history of Leonardo da Vinci and the Mona Lisa.
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