The Portrait in Gallery Nine: Bellweather Museum Mysteries — Book One

A portrait has been lying about its identity for nearly a century.When collections registrar Sarah Russell returns to the Bellweather Museum, she expects old records, difficult trustees, and memories of the place her mother abruptly abandoned decades ago. Instead, she discovers an impossible discrepancy in the provenance of a portrait hanging in Gallery Nine.Then the silver bell begins to ring.Reflections change when no one is looking. Painted details appear where none existed before. And the ghost of Evelyn Bellweather seems determined to lead Sarah toward a woman the museum has erased from its history: forgotten artist Constance Reid.As Sarah follows a trail of altered records, divided letters, hidden paintings, and decades-old financial secrets, she uncovers evidence that Evelyn's supposedly accidental death concealed something far more sinister. But someone in the present has already discovered parts of the truth-and has powerful reasons to keep Bellweather's past safely buried.To solve the mystery, Sarah must confront the secret that drove her own mother away and determine what Evelyn has been trying to reveal before the museum silences the truth again.The Portrait in Gallery Nine is an atmospheric supernatural mystery of haunted art, buried crimes, family secrets, and a ghost who refuses to be misidentified.Enter Gallery Nine-and discover what has been hiding beneath the paint.