Journalist Gabriella Coslovich's book is an account of a notorious Australian art fraud trial. Two leading figures in Melbourne's art world - dealer Peter Gant and conservator Aman Siddique - were tried on 2016 on charges of forging two paintings and passing them off as Brett Whiteley originals. This was a gigantic, multi-million dollar fraud but, as Coslovich shows, the legal system found itself almost incapable of prosecuting it effectively, or conducting a fair trial on the matter. The evidence-based realm of the law and the subjective judgment of the arts were just too far apart, with lawyers and judges wanting forensic proof that the works were fakes, and not willing to accept seemingly subjective judgment based on decades of familiarity with the artist's work.

Coslovich seems to drift away from her journalistic intentions at times and can't help taking sides as the story progresses, and this may colour the reader's assessment of the fairness of the process. However it is abundantly clear that many extraordinary steps were taken in this trial that render the final outcome exceedingly dubious.

The final appeal process was concluded in early 2017, so Coslovich has got this book together very quickly and given us a cogent and illuminating account of this significant case. She does an excellent job of bringing arcane details from both the legal and art worlds together and presenting them in a pacy and informative manner.