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1) Acqua alta
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Series
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English
Description
Venetian detective Guido Brunetti swings into action when the curator of Venice's most prestigious museum turns up dead, bludgeoned by a priceless artifact, and an American archaeologist and close friend narrowly escapes the killer.
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Series
Nora Kelly novel volume 2
Language
English
Description
In the latest masterwork of adventure and suspense from the celebrated #1 bestselling authors, the discovery of a mummified corpse in a legendary ghost town sets off a treasure hunt that will expose a shocking secret that reshapes history itself. A mummified corpse, over half a century old, is found in the cellar of an abandoned building in a remote New Mexico ghost town. Junior FBI Agent Corrie Swanson is assigned what seems to her a throwaway case:...
4) Spider web
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Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious sharpshooter with a vendetta takes aim at a local cop during a craft festival, Benni Harper fears for her loved ones, particularly her police chief husband, but still vows to make her hometown safe.
5) Old bones
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English
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"Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator at the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute, is approached by a historian, Clive Benton, with the opportunity to lead an expedition unlike any other. It begins with the story of the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with tales of courage,...
6) Reliquary
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Series
Pendergast novel volume 2
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English
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Description
A sequel to "The Relic" which has NYPD Lt. D'Agosta, Natural History Museum curator Margo Green, and a host of returning characters involved in a new investigation spurred by the discovery of the decapitated remains of a New York socialite and a sharp increase in the decapitation rate among the city's underground homeless.
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 4
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English
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Benni Harper--spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk art expert--finds herself on the trail of killer in this brand-new mystery from Agatha Award-nominee Earlene Fowler...When Benni finds a dead woman lying facedown in the lake, dressed in a Mother Goose costume, her investigation takes her inside the Storyteller's Guild.There she discovers that Mother Goose was telling more than fairy tales--she was a gossip columnist who aired the kind of secrets...
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Series
On Central Park volume 1
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English
Description
Dr. Lauren Westlake always promised her father she'd accompany him on one of his Egyptian expeditions. She is now the assistant curator of Egyptology for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and her father has offered to bring her to Egypt as his colleague on a new expedition. With Egyptomania sweeping the city after the discovery of King Tut's tomb, Detective Joe Caravello is on the hunt for a notorious forger preying on New York's high society. Dr. Westlake...
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Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After the recent events at Superstition Mountain, museum curator Ray Peralta thought he was done with danger. But violence starts spreading from a new group in town, and when Allie De La Cruz shows up, Ray realizes trouble has found him once more. Though he's completely blindsided by what Allie has to say, he can't help but listen to her farfetched story because Allie came to town to find the people who killed her family--and she believes Ray is the...
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English
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Meet Benni Harpera spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert whos staking out her own corner of the contemporary American West. Shes got an eye for murderous designsand a talent for piecing together the most complex and cold-blooded crimes When Jacob Chandler died, he left his home in Morro Bay and all its contents to Benni Harperthe only stipulation being that she had to stay in the house, alone,...
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 5
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English
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Meet Benni Harpera spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert whos staking out her own corner of the contemporary American West. Shes got an eye for murderous designsand a talent for piecing together the most complex and cold-blooded crimesBenni and about two hundred of her relatives and friends are gathered for the familys annual barbecue and cattle roundup. Among them is Shelby Johnson, a young...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Description
"Museum curator Ray Peralta knows that at the best of times, the Superstition Mountain Museum is a magnet for treasure hunters chasing the legendary Lost Dutchman's Mine. But this winter, his small desert town on the outskirts of Phoenix worries him as the visitors clear out and the vigilantes move in. Generally, the Sons of Liberty roll into Phoenix Valley for a week each winter with their souped-up army jeeps and dirt bikes to conduct drills in...
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Steps to the Altar finds California folk art expert Benni Harper preparing for two upcoming weddings, digging up clues to a decades-old unsolved murder-and struggling with a very personal crisis of the heart...
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Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"Volunteered" to take over rehearsals of a children's play for the musical director of her church, Benni Harper's entertainment career comes to a dismal end when she stumbles upon the corpse of the church handyman in front of the altar.
16) State fair
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Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Folk art museum curator, rancher, and sometime sleuth Benni Harper returns with a long-awaited new mystery that has her attending the San Celina Mid-State Fair-a place for caramel apples and 4-H calves, colorful quilts and homemade jams, and maybe just a little murder...
17) Kansas troubles
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Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
On her honeymoon visit to meet the in-laws, Benni has to sort through sweetie's childhood and longtime best friends to find who killed ex-Amish ambitious singer. The quilt is the clue, an obvious reason, but the names of the pattern is what Benni has to remember to solve the person responsible.
18) Tumbling blocks
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Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When her boss, Constance Sinclair, insists that she investigate the death of a local socialite, Benni Harper's search for the killer is threatened by plans to put her quilting museum on the map and a visit from her daunting mother-in-law and "surprise" new husband.
19) Old world murder
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Series
Chloe Ellefson mystery volume 1
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Chloe Ellefson, starting fresh as curator of Old World Wisconsin, finds herself in the middle of a mystery when a woman looking for a priceless eighteenth-century Norwegian ale bowl dies in a mysterious car crash and Chloe beings to realize that someone is trying to erase all traces of the bowl's existence.
20) The golden child
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
This novel combines a deft comedy of manners with a classic mystery set in London's most refined institution--the museum. When the glittering treasure of the ancient Garamantia, the golden child, is delivered to the museum, a web of intrigue tightens around its personnel, especially the hapless museum officer Waring Smith. While prowling the halls one night, Waring is nearly strangled. Two suspicious deaths ensue, and only the cryptic hieroglyphics...
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