No Oil Painting is going on tour with Rachel's Random Resources, if you wish to participate please contact me on rachel@rachelsrandomresources.com with your name, blog name, preferred post type and availability.
No Oil Painting by Genevieve Marenghi
Genre: Cosy Crime / Feelgood Humorous Fiction
Tour Dates: 5th - 14th December 2025
Publication Date: 10th October 2025
Estimated Page Count: 260
Standalone Novel
Formats available: Epub, PDF and limited UK paperbacks
Types of post available: Reviews (preferred) and basic promo / spotlight posts
Purchase Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Oil-Painting-Genevieve-Marenghi-ebook/dp/B0FNLWTCBS/
A respectable septuagenarian steals a valuable painting and later tries to return it, with a little help from her friends.
Bored National Trust volunteer, Maureen, steals an obscure still life as a giant up-yours to all those who’ve discounted her. The novice fine art thief is rumbled by some fellow room guides, but snitches get stitches, camaraderie wins out and instead of grassing her up, they decide to help.
Often written off as an insipid old fart, Maureen has a darker side, challenging ingrained ideas of how senior citizens should behave. Her new set of friends make her feel alive again. No longer quite so invisible, can this unlikely pensioner gang return the now infamous painting without being caught by the Feds?
About Genevieve Marenghi
With a BA in English and Philosophy, Genevieve worked for eleven years at the Weekend FT, where she helped create and launch How To Spend It magazine.
She volunteered for years as a National Trust guide at Ham House. This became the setting for her debut art heist novel, No Oil Painting, was listed for the Women’s Prize Trust Discoveries Award, and was published by Burton Mayers Books on 10th October 2025.
Her writing uses dark humour to probe the difference between our perception of people and their true selves. The gulf between what is said and what is meant. She considers people watching an essential skill for any writer; overheard snippets of conversation or a bonkers exchange at a bus stop are like gold nuggets. She’s been known to follow people to catch the end of a juicy conversation or argument. Women aged over fifty are essentially invisible anyhow and she views this as a kind of superpower.
Unlike her protagonist Maureen, she hasn’t used this to commit art theft. Yet.
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Blog Tour Schedule
Maximum 3 stops per day. Confirmed blogs will appear here.
5th December
Sarandipity's
Kitty McIntosh
6th December
C L Tustin -Author
Christian Bookaholic
7th December
Colin Garrow
Heather Adores Books
Tealeavesandbookleaves
8th December
Lisa's Reading
Stacey-Ann Says
malloch_books
9th December
WildWritingLife
Pickled Thoughts and Pinot
A Knight’s Reads
10th December
annette_reads_daily
My Books and Crafts
Bibliotica
11th December
The Book Magnet
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Reading For Leisure
12th December
redhead_reviews1
Let us talk of many things...
13th December
Emma's books
14th December
Scrapping&Playing
The Book Elf