Sarah Jost, Author at Criminal Element

Sarah Jost

SARAH JOST is a Swiss national who has been living in the UK since 2008. She has a MA in medieval French and minored in the history of art. Pursuing family history in Brittany, France, Sarah had the opportunity to visit castles and places of interest in Broceliande, which is the birthplace of Arthurian legend and the inspiration for her novel’s titular estate. Sarah has always been fascinated by her studies of the French sculptor Camille Claudel, who inspired the legendary artist in The Estate.

On How Art Experts Make the Perfect Literary Detectives by Sarah Jost, Author of The Estate

By Sarah Jost

November 18, 2024

Clearly, when creating his famous protagonist Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of symbology who finds clues in famous artworks to uncover international conspiracies, immortalised on screen by Tom Hanks, Dan Brown was onto something. Experts and academics make outstanding literary detectives. After years of study, their knowledge of their field is narrow but deep, sometimes…