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Thief series volume 2
Pub. Date
2003
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Uneasy about the forthcoming exhibition of the priceless Bannister collection, show director Morgan West finds herself forced into an uneasy alliance with master cat burglar Quinn, who enlists her assistance to catch an adversary.
2) Once a thief
Author
Series
Thief series volume 1
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With a priceless collection at stake...Is everything for the taking?
It had taken centuries for Max Bannister’s family to acquire their treasures, and now he’s been asked to risk his collection as bait for a master criminal. For his own reasons, Max allows a public exhibition, and to protect the family fortune he must rely on the skills of his half brother—a world-class security expert—and his smart and savvy exhibit...
It had taken centuries for Max Bannister’s family to acquire their treasures, and now he’s been asked to risk his collection as bait for a master criminal. For his own reasons, Max allows a public exhibition, and to protect the family fortune he must rely on the skills of his half brother—a world-class security expert—and his smart and savvy exhibit...
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Spenser novels volume 38
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Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.
4) Homeport
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Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
498 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
A woman art historian and an art thief join forces to find a stolen 15th century statue of the Dark Lady, one of Michelangelo's mistresses. Love blooms between Dr. Miranda Jones, a six-foot redhead, and Ryan Boldari, a handsome Irish-Italian, but can she trust him? Lots of detail on authenticating art.
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World of spies volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Husband and wife college professors Hollis and Finn Larsson receive a mysterious envelope containing passports under new names. They are forced onto a private plane headed to Argentina, with a mission to find an art thief.
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Series
Hagen novels volume 5
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New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper blends intrigue and romance in this classic tale of love lost and found—as an undercover agent recruits the woman he abandoned for a dangerous assignment.
Kyle Griffon has done more than flirt with danger over the past ten years; she’s embraced it with careless abandon. The rebel daughter of a powerful family, she’s walked on the wild side of everything from...
Kyle Griffon has done more than flirt with danger over the past ten years; she’s embraced it with careless abandon. The rebel daughter of a powerful family, she’s walked on the wild side of everything from...
8) Thief's mark
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As a young boy, Oliver York witnessed the murder of his wealthy parents in their London apartment. The killers kidnapped him and held him in an isolated Scottish ruin, but he escaped, thwarting their plans for ransom. Now, after thirty years on the run, one of the two men Oliver identified as his tormentors may have surfaced. Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan are enjoying the final day of their Irish honeymoon when a break-in at the home of Emma's grandfather,...
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Series
Riley Wolfe novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
551 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
Stealing a Faberge egg. Surviving a double cross. And pulling off the most incredible robbery ever, for the world's most demanding, and dangerous collector. This will be the challenge of thief extraordinaire Riley Wolfe's life.
In St. Petersburg, Riley steals a Fabergé egg, but is betrayed by the pilot he hired to help him get away. Now he's chained to a rock wall on a remote island-- the prisoner of an international arms dealer who wants Rile...
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"From New York Times best-selling author Yoon Ha Lee. The essential short story collection set in the universe of the Hugo Award nominated Machineries of Empire series! An ex-Kel art thief has to save the world from a galaxy-shattering prototype weapon ... A general outnumbered eight-to-one must outsmart his opponent ... A renegade returns from seclusion to bury an old comrade ... From the incredible imagination of Hugo- and Arthur C. Clarke-nominated...
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Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne volume 5
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
High school student Maron Kusakabe has a secret: she's Phantom Thief Jeanne. She sneaks into private art collections to steal paintings in which demons reside. Jeanne's task is to seal the demons before they can devour human hearts. So far she's been able to evade the police on her midnight outings, but now another thief has come onto the scene--Phantom Thief Sinbad--and he's trying to take the paintings before she does!
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Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 3
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One perfect red rose, a one-way ticket to Stockholm, and a cryptic "message" consisting of two Latin words intrigue art historian Vicky Bliss -- as they were precisely intended to do. Beautiful, brilliant and, as always, dangerously inquisitive, Vicky recognizes the handiwork of her former lover, the daring jewel thief John Smythe. So she takes the bait, eagerly following Smythe's lead in the hope of finding a lost treasure. But the trail begins with...
13) Liar's key
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An FBI legend, a mysterious antiquities specialist and a brazen art thief draw top FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan into a complex web of blackmail, greed and murder in the eagerly awaited new novel in the highly acclaimed Sharpe & Donovan series. Emma Sharpe is suspicious when retired Special Agent Gordon Wheelock, a legend in FBI art crimes, drops by her Boston office for a visit. Gordy says he's heard rumors about stolen ancient mosaics....
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
viii, 403 pages ; 24 cm
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"The single greatest work of art in the world is not in the Louvre or The Met, or in any private collection. In fact, its whereabouts are unknown. Once in a long while, a child is born possessing the rarest of gifts, the innate ability to feel impossible beauty, to recognize priceless works of art. When such a child is discovered, a 250-year-old secret organization called Our World trains them to acquire the greatest works of art through theft, bribery,...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"A stranger has witnessed Jeanne's transformation, and Maron worries that the police will soon find out her real identity. Chiaki again asks Maron to go out with him, but she refuses because they are on opposing sides. But if Chiaki is truly her enemy, why is he asking his partner, Access, if he's been working for the Demon Lord?"--
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