01384cam a2200265 4500 503781500 TxAuBib 20170323120000.0 160921s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781101870716 1101870710 TxAuBib Schlink, Bernhard. The woman on the stairs / Bernhard Schlink ; translated from the German by Joyce Hackett and Bradley Schmidt. New York : Pantheon Books, [2016] 227 pages. Translation of: Frau auf der Treppe. A missing painting. A mysterious woman. Her husband and her lover... A brilliant and naive young lawyer's life is changed forever when a painter and his subject--a breathtakingly beautiful woman--appear at his office in Frankfurt. The woman's husband is deliberately marring the painting of his wife he commissioned the artist to make. Now the woman and the artist want the painting back. Simple enough--or so it seems before the lawyer becomes enmeshed in the lives of this toxic trio. 20170323. Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Lawyers Fiction. Suspense fiction. Detective and mystery fiction.