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21) Polaris
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
As Kate Hamilton plans her upcoming wedding to Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, she is also assisting her colleague Ivor Tweedy with a project at the Netherfield Sanatorium, which is being converted into luxury townhouses. Kate and Ivor must appraise a fifteenth-century paintingand verify that its provenance is the Dutch master Jan Van Eyck. But when retired criminal inspector Will Parker is found dead, Kate learns that the halls of the sanatorium...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Asmodeus "Sax" Saxon-Tang, a vainglorious antiques dealer who has killed vampires for their treasures, leads a ragtag band of mercenaries and slayers across Europe to confront an ageless monster who has threatened Sax's loved ones.
Author
Series
Found things volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the bustle of the winter holidays in the Little Shop of Found Things gives way to spring, Xanthe is left to reflect on the strange events of the past year. While she's tried to keep her time-traveling talents a secret from those close to her, she is forced to take responsibility for having inadvertently transported the dangerous Benedict Fairfax to her own time. Xanthe comes to see that she must use her skills as a spinner if she and Flora are...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Christmas lights twinkle throughout the cozy coastal town of Rocky Point, New Hampshire, and Prescott's Antiques auction venue has been transformed into a winter wonderland for Josie Prescott's annual holiday party. Josie is especially excited this year-Ian Bennington, a recently discovered distant relative, will be joining the fun. Both Ian and Josie are, it seems, descended from Arabella Churchill, a 17th century royal mistress. The party is a...
Publisher
Acorn TV, RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Antique dealer Jean White has embraced her new life and new friends in France. As she begins setting up shop in scenic Sainte Victoire, she continues to be drawn into mysteries, from minor offenses to murder investigations, with Dom by her side.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's always been easier for Cara Hargraves to bury herself in the past, which is why working with an antiques dealer is perfect. While clearing out an estate, she pries open an old tin that holds the relics of a lost relationship: a World War II-era diary and a photograph of a young woman in uniform. Eager to find the author of the unfinished diary, Cara digs into this soldier's life, but soon realizes she may not have been ready for the stark reality...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Daniel Ahearn lives a quiet, solitary existence in a seaside New England town. Forty years ago, following a shocking act of impulsive violence on his part, his daughter, Susan, was ripped from his arms by police. Now in her forties, Susan still suffers from the trauma of a night she doesn't remember, as she struggles to feel settled, to love a man and create something that lasts. Lois, her maternal grandmother who raised her, tries to find peace...
Author
Series
Scandal Mountain antiques mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Vermont antique dealer Edie Brown teams up with Uncle Tuck and Kala to investigate the background of an unsettling collage by a famed, reclusive artist known only as Vespa, and uncovers secrets more disturbing than the artwork itself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Brandy Borne's exceedingly eccentric mother, Vivian, has been invited to perform her one-woman interpretation of "the Scottish play" (sometimes called Macbeth)--with different hats for different characters--at the neighboring town of Old York's annual fête. The weekend festival celebrates the quaint village's English flavor. Brandy, sensing a possible theatrical disaster, and savvy shih tzu Sushi, sensing possible doggy treats, tag along with the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
As Camille Benson, the mother of the newly elected mayor of Marthasville, Virginia, prepares to take over a local antiques business, the discovery of the previous owner's body in the antiques shop leads Camille to investigate the possible connection between his murder and a previously unreported theft of rare books.
Author
Series
Found things volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Paula Brackston's City of Time and Magic is the next installment in the time-traveling Found Things Series. City of Time and Magic sees Xanthe face her greatest challenges yet. She must choose from three treasures that sing to her; a beautiful writing slope, a mourning brooch of heartbreaking detail, and a gorgeous gem-set hat pin. All call her, but the wrong one could take her on a mission other than that which she must address first, and the stakes...
40) The pearl diver
Author
Series
Rei Shimura mysteries volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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