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Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
In Paris, New York photographer Andre Kelly puts aside photography to destroy a black market in paintings. The villain is using photo shoots of art works as an occasion to substitute forgeries for the real thing, then selling the originals to Japanese and Arab collectors. By the author of Anything Considered.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
The diary of a New York art historian as she keeps company a Vermeer painting, being held by the IRA for ransom. Alone in her lover's cottage in Ireland, Patricia Dolan admires the woman on canvas. "She's beautiful," she writes. By the author of Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations' Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick's job is to protect the world's cultural artifacts-including countless lesser-known objects and national treasures. When Nick travels to Belgium for a visit with...
10) Headhunters
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2011
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.
11) Harbor Island
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
2014.
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 fiancé, FBI deep-cover agent Colin Donovan, must outwit one of the smartest, most ruthless killers they have ever encountered.
12) Masterpiece
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A gripping story of deception in the world of international fine art. Restorer and spy Gabriel Allon embarks on a dangerous hunt across Europe for the secret behind the forgery of a seventeenth-century masterpiece that has fooled experts and exchanged hands for millions"--
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In their attempts to solve the mystery of their father's disappearance, Hazel and her brother, Ned, find themselves involved with a trio of art thieves and uncover some disturbing family secrets.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A sometime Israeli spy by trade and an art restorer by preference, Gabriel Allon arrives in Zurich to clean the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker -- only to find himself standing in his client's blood and framed for the murder. Without warning, Allon is drawn into a spiraling chain of events involving Nazi art theft, a decades-old suicide, and a bloody trail of killings -- some of them his own. The spy world Allon thought he had put aside...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"On the morning after the Venice Preservation Society's annual black-tie gala, art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon enters his favorite coffee bar on the island of Murano to find General Cesare Ferrari, the commander of the Art Squad, eagerly awaiting his arrival. The Carabinieri have made a startling discovery in the Amalfi villa of a murdered South African shipping tycoon--a secret vault containing an empty frame and stretcher matching the...
18) Nothing ventured
Author
Series
Language
English
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...
20) Manhunt
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Henry, Anna, and Jose, the junior members of the Silver Jaguar Society, are on a mission in Paris to recover the Mona Lisa--but when senior members of the Society are taken hostage, it is up to Henry to rescue them while continuing to pursue the missing masterpiece.
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