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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
412 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tilda Goodnight, one of a long line of art forgers, tries to save her family by going straight, but things become complicated when she tries to steal back a painting she did years earlier and has an encounter in a closet with semi-reformed con man Davy Dempsey.
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 43
Language
English
Description
When a slam-bang of a crime brings a beautiful new client into Stone Barrington’s office, little does he know his association with her will pull him into a far more serpentine mystery in the exclusive world of art. It’s a business where a rare find could make a career — and a collection — and mistakes in judgment are costly. And under its genteel and high-minded veneer lurks an assortment of grifters and malfeasants eager to cash in on the...
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 22
Language
English
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Description
Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are clandestinely enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends his days wandering the streets and canals of the watery...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Silver Bay, Oregon, a small coastal resort town with nearly a thousand residents, is home to three generations of women: Marnie, the long-widowed owner of a small gift shop; Van, her granddaughter who is about to graduate medical school; and Stef, mercurial, difficult, and a brilliant artist who refuses to sell her work. When Stef discovers that Dale Oliver -- the latest husband/paramour in a very long line -- is trying to sell her work behind her...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
In addition to being the nosiest and most sypathetic philosopher you are likely to meet, Isabel is now a mother. Charlies, her newborn son, presents her with a myriad wonders of a new life, and doting father Jamie presents her with an intriguing proposal: marriage. In the midst of all this, she receives a disturbing letter announcing that she has been ousted as editor of the Review of Applied Ethics by the ambitious Professor Dove. None of these things,...
Author
Series
Genevieve Lenard novel volume 3
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When world-renowned nonverbal communication expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard wakes up in an unknown location, drugged and kidnapped, it pushes the limits of her autism coping skills. For the last year, Russian philanthropist and psychopath Tomasz Kubanov has been studying Genevieve just as she and her team have been studying him. Now forged paintings and mysterious murders are surfacing around her team, with evidence pointing to one of them as the...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
360 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art today worth over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there's more to this crime than meets the eye. Making a living reproducing famous artworks for a popular online retailer and desperate to improve her situation, Claire is lured into a Faustian...
Author
Series
Genevieve Lenard novel volume 5
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard's search for an international assassin is rudely interrupted by an autistic teenager who claims that forged masterpieces are being sold on the dark net--a secret internet few know exists. The resulting probe uncovers an underground marketplace offering much more sinister products and services. Including murder. An official investigation into one of her team members and the discovery of dozens...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
What happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot-tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one priceless painting? The charming Eduardo de Valfierno makes a very respectable living in Argentina fleecing the nouveau rich — they pay him to steal valuable pieces of art, and Valfierno sells them flawless forgeries instead. But when Eduardo meets the beautiful Mrs. Hart on his latest con, he takes a risk...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. In his earlier, award-winning novels, Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing the past to life. Now, in The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, he deftly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape...
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