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Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
While on assignment to create a mural for the Dawes, Wyoming Post Office, painter Val Welch finds himself entranced by his hosts, John and Eve Long, but when Eve flees with a valuable painting, John recruits Val to track her down.
2) The Heist
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon Novel volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gabriel Allon, art restorer and occasional spy for Israel, must play a dangerous game of high stakes international intrigue as he searches for a stolen masterpiece by Caravaggio.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired by a museum to provide protection during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting, Spenser is personally outraged when the ransom fails and the painting is not recovered, a case that makes him suspect the innocence of the art scholar who retained him.
4) Saint's gate
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Emma Sharpe is summoned to a convent on the Maine coast, it's partly for her art crimes work with the FBI, partly because of her past with the religious order. At issue is a mysterious painting depicting scenes of Irish lore and Viking legends, and her family's connection to the work. But when the nun who contacted her is murdered, it seems legend is becoming deadly reality.
6) Headhunters
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
265, 21 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Roger Brown is a headhunter and art thief living beyond his means and when he meets Clas Greve, a corporate candidate who reveals that he owns a priceless Rubens painting, Roger breaks into his apartment, initiating a series of events which puts Roger's life in danger.
9) Heron's Cove
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
FBI art-crimes expert Emma Sharpe and deep-cover agent Colin Donovan are recuperating in Heron's Cove when they learn of a rare set of Russian jewelry that's about to be stolen. Their best chance of stopping the theft is splitting up, but with a powerful enemy lurking in the shadows, can Emma and Colin cheat death and be reunited a second time?
10) The Emerald tide
Author
Series
Miramar Bay volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Still mourning his wife four years after her death, art history teacher and auction house consultant Derek Gaines teams up with Kelly Reid, the head of gallery operations at Christie's Los Angeles, to track down a stolen painting.
12) Always a thief
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
13) Nothing ventured
Author
Series
[William Warwick novels] volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer's #1 New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles: introducing Detective William Warwick. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective . . . William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father's dismay, that rather than become a lawyer like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister...
Author
Series
An Elm Creek quilts novel volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sylvia Bergstrom Compson and her fiance Andrew embark on a difficult journey to find her mother's missing heirloom quilts, all the while discovering secrets regarding her mother's life and untimely death.
15) Headhunters
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
265, 21 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Roger Brown is a headhunter and art thief living beyond his means and when he meets Clas Greve, a corporate candidate who reveals that he owns a priceless Rubens painting, Roger breaks into his apartment, initiating a series of events which puts Roger's life in danger.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 403 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A man who will stop at nothing to save his daughter tracks a psychopathic killer who is protected by a 250-year-old secret organization that uses theft, bribery, forgery and murder to acquire the world's greatest works of art.
17) Harbor Island
Author
Series
Sharpe and Donovan novel volume 4
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
While tracking down stolen artifacts from Boston to Ireland to the coast of Maine, Emma Sharpe, the granddaughter of a world-renowned art detective, and her fiance, FBI deep-cover agent Colin Donovan, must outwit one of the smartest, most ruthless killers they have ever encountered.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now. Will Chen plans to steal them back. A senior at Harvard, Will fits comfortably in his carefully curated roles: a perfect student, an art history major and sometimes artist, the eldest son who has always been his parents' American Dream. But when a mysterious...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
430 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
While working at the Jeu de Paume Museum, Sophie, who fled Germany after witnessing the government-sanctioned burning of modern, "degenerate" art, steals looted masterpieces from the Nazis, replacing them with forgeries with the help of her sister-in-law, risking more than her life to keep these paintings safe.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a pair of drug-addled criminals aims to make a planned art heist their own, LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss, surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, and the rest of the team at Hollywood Station have a deadly situation on their hands.