A psychological thriller

The Woman
in the Painting

When mysterious paintings of a woman appear at his gallery, a curator's hunt for the anonymous artist unravels his marriage, his sanity, and everything he thought he knew about himself.

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THE WOMAN
IN THE
Painting
Leslie Elliot

The Novel

The Woman in the Painting A Novel

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Set in the high-stakes world of Chicago's contemporary art scene, this psychological thriller follows three voices that spiral toward a single, devastating truth. Unreliable, intimate, and relentlessly tense — a novel about obsession, identity, and the stories we construct to survive ourselves.

Psychological Thriller Literary Fiction Contemporary
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Leslie Elliot

The Author

Leslie Elliot

Leslie Elliot is a writer based in Santander, Spain. She spent over a decade as an independent art dealer and gallery director in Mexico City, working inside a world of ambition, illusion, and carefully curated surfaces — an environment that informs every page of her fiction.

Before her career in the art world, she held a senior role in luxury brand management at The Estée Lauder Companies and founded Cotton Ball Toffee, an artisanal confectionery brand. She holds a Graduate Degree in Political Communication from the London School of Economics and writes in both English and Spanish.

The Woman in the Painting is her debut novel.

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