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Author
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...
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...
3) Acqua alta
Author
Series
Language
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.
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 12
Language
English
Description
When a body is found beneath Michelangelo's dome, Gabriel Allon is summoned to secretly investigate the death that has been ruled a suicide--a case that brings about an unthinkable act of sabotage.
5) Old bones
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
A contemporary fantasy set in present-day London finds people flocking to a British Museum exhibit of a giant squid that is stolen by magical criminals, a crime that propels young curator Billy into a supernatural underworld.
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Series
Language
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,...
Author
Series
Manor House mystery volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When Marshfield Manor hosts a charity event, Grace Wheaton, the museum's curator and manager, is happy to lend a helping hand--until a killer makes an unwanted donation. With the town clock in desperate need of repair, local lawyer Joyce Swedburg and her ex-husband, Dr. Leland Keay, are trying to put aside their differences to organize a benefit at Marshfield Manor to raise money for restoration of the beautiful timepiece. While Grace appreciates...
10) Leaving: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Former college sweethearts reconnect decades later after each has married, raised a family and forged careers and embark on an intense affair that forces them to confront the moral responsibilities of their love for their families and each other.
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
12) The golden child
Author
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...
Author
Series
On Central Park volume 1
Language
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...
14) Old scores
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"It is a headline-making story: the discovery of a previously unknown Rembrandt. René Vachey, the iconoclastic art dealer who claims to have uncovered it, wants to make a gift of it to the Seattle Art Museum, but curator Chris Norgren is wary. Vachey is notorious in art circles for perpetrating scandalous shams; not for profit but for the sheer fun of embarrassing the elite and snobbish "experts" of the art establishment. And thanks to the web of...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Greed, uncertainty, and death get tangled in the mystery of a rare piece of Belgian lace. Curator Chloe Ellefson needs distraction from the unsettling family secret she's just learned. It doesn't help that her boyfriend, Roelke McKenna, has been troubled for weeks and won't say why. Chloe hopes a consulting job at Green Bay's Heritage Hill Historical Park, where an old Belgian-American farmhouse is being restored, will be a relaxing escape. Instead...
16) Spider web
Author
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.
Author
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:...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Curator Chloe Ellefson is happily planning to spotlight home-front challenges and German immigrants at Old World Wisconsin's first Civil War reenactment, but her overbearing boss scorns her ideas and proposes staging a mock battle instead. And when a reenactor is found dead at one of the historic site's German farms, Chloe's boyfriend, cop Roelke McKenna, suspects murder. The more Roelke learns about reenacting, the more he fears that a killer will...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"A young girl, kidnapped on the eve of Word War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and-decades later-a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma. 1940. Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race. But when she is reassigned to work as a museum curator in Nuremberg, then forced to marry...
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 5
Language
English
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Description
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...
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