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Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Lady Wilhelmina Bascombe, in need of money after the death of her husband, attempts to retrieve a family treasure--a Renaissance masterpiece currently in the hands of a cunning art collector in Venice--with the help of the Lady Travelers Society. Dante Augustus Montague likewise believes the painting was stolen from his family's art collection. Now they are rivals for a prize that will change everything.
Author
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Priscilla's decision to take the painting above her fireplace to be cleaned reveals a startling find. Beneath the layers of paint hides a famous painting that was stolen fifty years ago. How did it end up in Priscilla's cottage? When the painting vanishes, Priscilla finds herself both a suspect and in danger from someone who might be the real thief. And her search for the truth uncovers new facts about the argument that ended the relationship between...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The fifth entry in this acclaimed series finds Verlaque and Bonnet investigating a murder and the provenance of a mysterious painting Like Donna Leon and Andrea Camilleri, M.L. Longworth's enchanting mystery series blends clever whodunits with gustatory delights and the timeless appeal of Provence. The Mystery of the Lost Cézanne adds a new twist by immersing Antoine and Marine in a clever double narrative that costars Provence's greatest artist....
44) The forger
Author
Publisher
Arcadia Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In a routine operation, Chief Inspector Frank Stave is shot down. He survives, but transfers from the murder commission to the office combatting the black market. There, Stave is confronted with an enigmatic case: Trummerfrau, women helping to clear rubble from Hamburg's bombed streets, discover works of art from the Weimar period - right next to a unidentified corpse. Shortly afterwards, mysterious banknotes whose existence disturbs the Allies'...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Paris, 1939: The Nazis think Éliane can't understand German. They have no idea she's decoding their notes and sending intel to the Parisian Resistance. Present day: Remy Lang heads to a home she's mysteriously inherited on the Riviera. While working on her vintage fashion business, she discovers a catalog of the artworks stolen during World War II and is shocked to see a painting that hung on her childhood bedroom wall. Who is her family, really?...
46) The double
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Every man has his dark side ... Spero Lucas confronts his own in the most explosive thriller yet from one of America's best-loved crime writers. The job seems simple enough: retrieve the valuable painting--"The Double"--Grace Kinkaid's ex-boyfriend stole from her. It's the sort of thing Spero Lucas specializes in: finding what's missing, and doing it quietly. But Grace wants more. She wants Lucas to find the man who humiliated her--a violent career...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the critically acclaimed and USA Today bestselling author Charles Finch comes The Vanishing Man, a prequel to his Charles Lenox Victorian series, in which the theft of an antique painting sends Detective Lenox on a hunt for a criminal mastermind. London, 1853: Having earned some renown by solving a case that baffled Scotland Yard, young Charles Lenox is called upon by the Duke of Dorset, one of England's most revered noblemen, for help. A painting...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A new bind-up with three exciting thrillers featuring NYPD Detective Luc Moncrief, a Paris detective who's about to learn that NYC is a whole other ballgame in the world of crime. French Twist: Gorgeous women are dropping dead at upscale department stores in New York City. Detective Luc Moncrief and Detective Katherine Burke are close to solving the mystery, but looks can be deceiving. French Kiss: Very handsome and charming French detective Luc Moncrief...
Author
Publisher
Marian Wood Books/Putnam
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When 30-year-old Anna Ramsey learns that a meth-addicted looter has dug up what might be the funerary mask of Montezuma, she books the next flight to Oaxaca. Determined to redeem her father, a discredited art collector, and to one-up her unfaithful fiance, a museum curator, Anna hurls herself headlong into Mexico's underground art world. But others are chasing the treasure as well: the shape-shifting drug lord no one can really describe; the enigmatic...
Author
Series
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Una apasionante historia de engaño en el mundo de las bellas artes internacionales. El restaurador y espía Gabriel Allon se embarca en una peligrosa búsqueda por toda Europa en busca del secreto detrás de la falsificación de una obra maestra del siglo XVII que engañó a los expertos y cambió de manos por millones. El exitoso autor Daniel Silva continúa con sus aclamados bestsellers número uno del New York Times, The Cellist, The Order y The...
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