Authenticity for a buck? Yes!

Here's a holiday gift-giving idea. Except it's not really a special deal, and it's not really a gift, and there is nothing about it that is especially holiday-themed. It's just the everyday deal we offer for our XPat Fiction books: Put a book on your e-reader for $1.

Today's featured book is Authenticity, a fast-paced mystery/thriller set in Saint Petersburg, where an exhibit at the Hermitage is set to feature paintings Stalin sold to the U.S. in the 1920s. Trouble is, these paintings seem to be nothing more than rather convincing forgeries, and somewhere throughout the history of the Soviet Union the originals went hiding.

This is the perfect airplane read—the story moves quickly, elevated by glimpses into the worlds of art, opera, theater, and ballet in Russia.