..".Knelman makes shrewd use of extensive interviews with figures on both side of the law, allowing him to fully establish this hidden, high-stakes milieu...Engaging expose of an underground world...."
--"Kirkus"
"Knelman takes readers on a fascinating journey through a criminal underworld that defies logic and confounds policing agencies from Los Angeles to Scotland Yard....Knelman [is] a born storyteller..."
--"Booklist"
"Knelman is a brilliant narrative writer and reporter who has assembled a cast of oddball sleuths and crooks rich enough to people five TV series. He takes us inside a huge and growing region of the global underworld. A thrilling read."
--Paul Steiger, editor in chief, "ProPublica"
""Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the Secret World of Stolen Art" creeps up on you. Wickedly entertaining.... Joshua Knelman's in-depth investigation of the international trade in stolen art may read like a TV crime novel, but it delves deeper than that, deftly allowing art theft to serve as an extended metaphor for exploitive, unregulated, free-for-all global capitalism."
--"Literary Review of Canada"
"let me know when your book hits the shelves and i'll go and shoplift myself a copy."
--e-mail from Banksy
"Lo, thriller readers & writers: Just got Joshua Knelman's nonfic "Hot Art," re: art thieves & detecs hunting them - you will love!"
--Tweet by Margaret Atwood
"Joshua Knelman's "Hot Art" has it all: fascinating characters, great stories, and an intriguing subject matter, the world of art crimes. It is totally engrossing. I couldn't stop reading it."
--Ted Kotcheff, Executive Producer, "Law & Order: SVU"
"With an eye for detail worthy of Rembrandt's "Landscape with Cottages" (1654, stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1972), Joshua Knelman has painted a luminous portrait of the interconnected world of thieves, cops, and lawyers obsessed with stolen art. Whether he's writi