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Manhattan art dealer Sera James watched her world crumble at the altar two years ago, and her desire for distraction reignites a passion for a mysterious portrait she first saw as a young girl: a painting of a young violinist with piercing blue eyes. Sera crosses paths with William Hanover, and together they slowly unravel the story behind the painting's subject: Austrian violinist Adele Von Bron, daughter to a high-ranking member of the Third Reich...
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Series
[Rarities unlimited series] volume 2
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A sequel to Moving Target brings readers back to the Las Vegas desert setting of Rarities Unlimited, an exclusive appraisal house where passion, dangers, and suspense are part of everyday life.
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Publisher
Do-Not-Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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British Nazi Naomi Keene left a legacy of portraits depicting Hitler's inner circle to her eighty-five-year-old sister, Sidonie, who tries to protect them against the predations of the ruthless art dealer Hugo Gottfleisch by any means necessary.
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Isabel Dalhousie volume 4
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English
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Isabel Dalhousie attends an art auction and finds a painting attributed to a now-deceased artist that features a person whom the artist could only have encountered after his supposed death, meaning that either the artwork is a forgery or the artist could still be alive.
5) Bare bones
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Temperance Brennan volume 6
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English
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When burned bones turn up in three unlikely places in North Carolina, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is plunged into a mystery, instead of the romantic vacation she had been hoping for.
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Capital crimes volume 15
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Sleuth Mac Smith flies to Mexico on a fact-finding tour as the White House seeks to formulate a policy towards Mexican revolutionaries. Prompting the trip is the spread of violence, including murder, all the way to Washington.
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Capital crimes volume 14
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Lawyer-professor Mackensie Smith discovers a shocking truth and puts his own life in danger when he sets out to discover who killed his close friend Paul Latham, a congressman who had been nominated to be the next secretary of state.
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Capital crimes volume 22
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
When the Washington National Opera becomes the scene of a brutal murder, Mac Smith and his wife, gallery owner Annabel Reed-Smith, must stop an assassination plot targeting the president of the United States on opening night at the Kennedy Center.
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Capital crimes volume 19
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When the body of a young theatre volunteer named Nadia Zarinski is found in a dark alley, two cops, Rick Klayman and Moses "Mo" Johnson, discover that Nadia was the intern for, and the rumored lover of, an influential right-wing Senator.
10) Any human heart
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English
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Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991, aged 85. William Boyd's novel Any Human Heart is his disjointed autobiography, a massive tome chronicling "my personal rollercoaster"--or rather, "not so much a rollercoaster", but a yo-yo, "a jerking spinning toy in the hands of a maladroit child." From his early childhood in Montevideo, son of an English corned beef executive and his Uraguayan secretary,...
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Mrs. Pollifax volume 10
Pub. Date
1993.
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English
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The assignment is a snap: Mrs. Pollifax just has to shoot some pictures at a quiet funeral outside Washington and take them to Sicily, where her old friend Farrell a former CIA agent turned art dealer anxiously awaits them. But like all Mrs. P's assignments, so ostensibly suitable for the CIA's favorite garden club member, this one quickly turns lethal. Her welcoming committee in Palermo includes a most unlikely CIA agent and several...
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English
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The legendary Hollywood Hills are home to wealth, fame, and power--passing through the neighborhood, it's hard not to get a little greedy. LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss could take or leave the opulence, but he wouldn't say no to onscreen fame. He may get his shot when he catches the appreciative eye of B-list director Rudy Ressler, and his troublemaking fiancée, Leona Brueger, the older-but-still-foxy widow of a processed-meat tycoon. Nate...
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Investigator Yashim volume 3
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Sent to investigate rumors that a stolen art masterpiece has resurfaced in Venice, eunuch detective Yashim delegates negotiations for the work's return to Polish ambassador Palewski, in an unexpectedly dangerous case with ties to the alluring Contessa d'Aspi d'Istria.
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Capital crimes volume 13
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
When the senior curator at Washington's famed National Gallery finds a missing painting by the Renaissance master Caravaggio, he mounts a world-class exhibition--and plots a brilliant forgery scheme that will stun the art world. But an artful deception suddenly becomes a portrait of blackmail and murder--as gallery owner and part-time sleuth Annabel Reed-Smith and her husband go searching for clues in the heady arena of international art and uncover...
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Capital crimes volume 10
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1990.
Language
English
Description
The brutal murder of a friend drags Mac Smith and Annabel Reed from their newlywed bliss into an unholy web of intrigue and danger. When a second murder is commited in England, which the honeymooners had just visited, the Smiths go back across the seas, and straight into the center of an ungodly plot of secret agents, a playboy priest, a frustrated lover, a choleric cleric ... and a murder so perfect it's a sin.--Publisher's description.
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In London, the Metropolitan Police have set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit - a cold case squad - to catch the criminals nobody else can. Four victims. Four cases. All killers poised to strike again. In Geneva, millionaire art collector Miles Faulkner, convicted of forgery and theft, was pronounced dead two months ago. So why is his unscrupulous lawyer still representing a dead client? And who is the mysterious man his widow is planning to marry? On...
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Capital crimes volume 12
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
Law professor Mac has unflagging passion for two things in his life: his wife Annabel and the majestic Potomac River. When Mac discovers a weed-shrouded body in the latter, the former gets edgy. Lovely Annabel, owner of a flourishing Georgetown art gallery, must not only endure her husband's obsession with another killing, but she must believe Mac when he says that a stunning female former student is one of the only people who can help him. They discover...
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Capital crimes volume 9
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1989.
Language
English
Description
During a gala benefit for the Democratic Party's hottest presidential hopeful at the glittering Kennedy Center, a young woman dies, a victim of quick and brutal violence. The murder weapon belongs to the candidate. The chief suspect is the candidate's son. The dynamic campaign of Senator Kenneth Ewald has collided with a tragedy that can send his son to jail--and wreck his own career. George Washington University law professor Mac Smith comes out...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In his debut novel, rock legend Pete Townshend explores the anxiety of modern life and madness in a story that stretches across two generations of a London family, their lovers, collaborators, and friends. A former rock star disappears on the Cumberland moors. When his wife finds him, she discovers he has become a hermit and a painter of apocalyptic visions. An art dealer has drug-induced visions of demonic faces swirling in a bedstead and soon his...
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English
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The queen of romantic suspense returns with a heart-racing tale in which a former soldier turned rancher and a beautiful designer race to stop a vicious killera battle for survival that threatens to explode in an intense and irresistible passion. An art dealer and owner of her own design studio, Perfect Touch, Sarah "Sam" Maddox travels the world to find the ideal artwork for her clients. Her sophisticated, comfortable life in San Francisco...
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