Fake by Erica Katz is intriguing from the first to the last page. This book is well paced and reads quickly, much like Katz' debut novel, The Boy's Club, but it is a tighter 300 pages. Told in traditional chapters and FBI interviews, we learn the story of Emma Caan. Emma is an accomplished painter, but her original works have never garnered success so she works at Gemini, an agency that hand copies extremely valuable paintings for museums and collectors. 

Emma spends her days copying paintings worth millions of dollars only to sleep in a barely livable studio apartment. And she has a past she is in denial about as well. Her father has recently passed away, and there are past events that make that more complex than the grief anyone might have. 

Early in the novel, Emma decides to quit Gemini to work directly for a very wealthy man named  Leonard Sobetsky and she goes to work for a very prestigious art gallery with no related experience. Plunged into a part of the high end art world that she was naïve to, Emma is in over her head. What's really going on? Is this all too good to be true? 

I couldn't put this one down and my only criticism is that I saw several of the twists and reveals coming, but I still enjoyed them. If you have liked Fake Like Me or The Boy's Club this is a must read. If you are fascinated by stories of the extremely wealthy, I think you'll like this one as well.