DedicationAuthor’s NoteHow to Survive on Land and SeaHuman Remains projectAsmat bis polesWe don’t do sensationalismDiary of a missing anthropologistReturning to Dutch New GuineaNew job prospectsAn unexpected discoveryComputer problemsThe Anti-Colonial BrigadeBad newsTropenmuseum in upheavalAn acquisition trip to OwZelda seeks guidanceMission Museum SteylAsmat baptismsPaving the wayBreaking with the pastHave faithReprimanding ZeldaAsmat rituals and ethnic art dealersA missing collectionRestitution of our ancestorsSetting prioritiesExceptions to the ruleFishing in KopiA fifty-year-old disputeDid you spill the beans?Considering blackmailCan’t this wait?Date nightBreak-in at the TropenmuseumNick Mayfield’s journalGive back what is not yoursA letter to PepijnQuality above quantityLashing outSurveying the jungleGallery VisserAncestor worshipShady provenanceThe physical anthropologist’s hutMS Bali IIIPepijn calls the policeA welcome opportunityAt your serviceA DNA matchSins of the pastSculptures from the RainforestReading Group QuestionsAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorThe Lover's Portrait: An Art MysteryThe Lover's Portrait: Chapter OneMarked for Revenge: An Art Heist ThrillerMarked for Revenge: Chapter OneA museum researcher must solve a decades-old murder before she becomes the killer’s next victim in this riveting dual timeline thriller set in Papua and the Netherlands.Agats, Dutch New Guinea (Papua), 1961: While collecting Asmat artifacts for a New York museum, American anthropologist Nick Mayfield stumbles upon a smuggling ring organized by high-ranking members of the Dutch colonial government and the Catholic Church. Before he can alert the authorities, he vanishes in a mangrove swamp, never to be seen again.Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2018: While preparing for an exhibition of Asmat artifacts in a Dutch ethnographic museum, researcher Zelda Richardson finds Nick Mayfield’s journal in a long-forgotten crate. Before Zelda can finish reading the journal, her housemate is brutally murdered and ‘Give back what is not yours’ is scrawled on their living room wall.Someone wants ancient history to stay that way—and believes murder is the surest way to keep the past buried.Can she solve a sixty-year-old mystery before decades of deceit, greed, and retribution cost Zelda her life?