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Pub. Date
2016
Description
A rare seventeenth-century painting -- the only known surviving work of a woman who defied the expectations of her time -- links three lives, on three continents, over three centuries in this exhilarating new novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Beautiful Miscellaneous.
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten--certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, most of whom float through...
Author
Pub. Date
2009, c1998
Physical Desc
379 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Art historian Nicholas Ochterlonie's seemingly perfect life is thrown into chaos when his wife suddenly demands a divorce. As his world turns upside down, Nicholas finds himself breaking the law, having an affair, and crossing the Russian mafia.
Author
Series
Lost castle novels volume 3
Description
When art historian Keira Foley is hired to authenticate a painting at a centuries-old East Suffolk manor, she hopes this is just the thing to get her career back on track. But from the time she begins working alongside rumored art thief Emory Scott, she's left with more questions than answers. Could this lost painting of Queen Victoria be a duplicate of the original masterpiece, and if so, who is the artist? As Keira begins to unravel the mystery...
13) Still as death
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
x, 304 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
While tracking down a missing artifact, a piece of Egyptian funerary jewelry that has vanished from the collection of a Harvard art museum, art history professor Sweeney St. George discovers that a student intern had died suspiciously while doing research on the gem shortly after it had been given to the museum.
16) Trojan gold
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (10 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Art historian and amateur detective Vicky Bliss receives a blood-stained envelope containing a photograph of an unknown woman wearing the long-missing Gold of Troy.
Author
Series
Detective Varg novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Perplexing, unfathomable, and perhaps unimportant, the cases that Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes take on will test them to their limits. Life--and crime--is not always as it seems for Ulf Varg and the other fearless detectives in Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes. There are always surprising new cases to take on, and the latest batch is no exception. And that's not to mention Ulf's struggle to contain his feelings for his colleague Anna...
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (6.75 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A single crimson rose and a plane ticket to Stockholm neatly mailed in a mysterious package sound like the formula for a romantic weekend. And a note in the bottom of the box fuels Vicky's already insatiable curiosity--it is written in an archaic language even the capable Dr. Bliss cannot decipher. Is she embarking on a journey of romance or something else?
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Vicky Bliss, peerless art historian and sleuth, searches for solutions to more than one heinous offense in the ever-shifting sands of Egypt's mysterious Valley of the Kings. When her longtime significant other, John Tregarth, the suave and dangerously charming international art thief, is accused of taking a world-famous, one-of-a-kind historic relic, it is up to Bliss to clear his name.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 19 cm
Description
"A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss, drawing her and an arrogant male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Here, where the blood of the long forgotten damned stains ancient stones, Vicky must face...
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