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1) Saint's gate
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Emma Sharpe, having been contacted by a nun at a convent on the Maine coast to answer questions about a mysterious painting with a connection to her family, finds herself in the middle of a murder and art theft investigation when the nun is found dead, and, while working with deep-cover FBI agent Colin Donovan, she soon realizes her life and heart are in danger.
2) Firebreak
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Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the whole world of crime changed. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital-the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone.
But cash isn't everything: Flashfire and Firebreak find Parker going after, respectively, a fortune in jewels and...
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Rome: In the small church of Santa Giuliana, a magnificent Caravaggio altarpiece disappears without a trace in the middle of the night. Paris: In the basement vault of the Malevich Society, the curator is shocked to discover the disappearance of the Society's great treasure, White on White by Suprematist painter Kasimir Malevich. London: At the National Gallery of Modern Art, the museum's newest acquisition is stolen just hours after it was purchased...
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Gabriel Allon, art restorer and occasional spy, searches for a stolen masterpiece by Caravaggio in #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva’s latest action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue.
Sometimes the best way to find a stolen masterpiece is to steal another one . . .
Master novelist Daniel Silva has thrilled readers with sixteen thoughtful and gripping spy novels featuring a diverse
...6) Headhunters
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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Corporate headhunter Roger Brown is also a master art thief, and when he meets Clas Greve at an opening at his wife's art gallery and learns Clas has a priceless Peter Paul Rubens painting that has been lost since World War II, Roger believes he has stumbled upon the perfect heist, but when he breaks into Clas's apartment, he find's more than just the painting.
7) Le mariage
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Two couples, Anna-Sophie, a Parisienne antiques dealer, and her fiancee, American journalist Tim Nolinger; and Clara Holly, an American actress married to Polish director Serge Cray; become involved in a complicated web of theft, murder, wrongful arrest, seduction, and love.
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Charlie Howard-globe-trotting mystery writer, professional thief, and poor decision maker-is in Paris. Flush with the success of his latest book reading, Charlie agrees to show a complete novice how to break into an apartment in the Marais. Fast-forward twenty-four hours and Charlie's hired to steal an ordinary-looking oil painting-from the exact same address. Mere coincidence? Charlie figures there's no harm in finding out-until a dead body turns...
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Joe Gunther, a Brattleboro, Vermont, cop, is the head of the new Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI), a joint task force charged with statewide responsibility for major crimes. In The Marble Mask, the VBI's first case takes the force north to Stowe, where a fifty-year-old corpse has turned up in a crevasse on Mt. Mansfield. Some of the more interesting minor characters in author Archer Mayor's long-running series about the amiable elder sleuth make...
10) Cold hit
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Scribner
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
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When the body of a famous art dealer washes up on the shores of Manhattan, Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper joins NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace in a search for the killer that leads them into the dark underworld of art theft.
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Best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini charms her many fans with her engaging Elm Creek Quilts novels. In The Quilter's Legacy, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson resolves to find several heirloom quilts that have vanished. Traveling far and wide, she discovers fascinating truths about her mother, who died when Sylvia was only a child.
13) The trackers
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While on assignment to create a mural for the Dawes, Wyoming Post Office, painter Val Welch finds himself entranced by his hosts, John and Eve Long, but when Eve flees with a valuable painting, John recruits Val to track her down.
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Midnight Louie, alley cat extraordinaire and Las Vegas's hairiest, hard-boiled PI, finds himself literally walking a tightrope when a fabulous museum opening at one of Sin City's swankiest casinos is marred by a little thing like death.
Louie's loyal roommate, feisty PR freelancer Temple Barr, has snagged the commission of her career: reaping the opening exhibition of the Russian Czars' priceless treasures at the New Millennium Hotel, the apex of...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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Jonathan Argyll, exchanging favors with a fellow art dealer, agrees to carry a mediocre painting from Paris to Rome and deliver it to its buyer, never suspecting that the errand would lead to two murders and the revelation of old, nasty secrets.
20) Masterpiece
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Square Fish/Holt
Pub. Date
2010, c2008
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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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.
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