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Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A home-security camera captures fourteen-year-old Carly Liddell fending off a vicious attack just inside her own front door. The video of her heroic escape appears online and goes viral. As the view count climbs, the lives of four desperate people will be forever changed by what's just barely visible in the corner of the shot: a stolen painting, hanging in Carly's stepfather's foyer. As secrets come to light, Carly's stepfather, the original art dealer,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After moving to Rome with her father, thirteen-year-old Beatrice witnesses a shadowy figure steal the turtle sculptures from a fountain located outside her window and is determined to solve the crime herself when no one believes her story.
23) Art and crime
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The art world is one of the most secretive of global businesses, and the list of its crimes runs long and deep. Today, with prices in the hundreds of millions for individual artworks, and billionaires' collections among the most conspicuous and liquid of their assets, crime is more rampant than ever in this largely unregulated universe. Increased prices and globalization have introduced new levels of fraud and malfeasance into the art world--everything...
Author
Language
English
Description
Joan Blakely had an unconventional childhood: the daughter of a globe-trotting supermodel and a world-famous artist. Her artist father died on 9/11, and Joan--an art historian by training--has spent more than a decade maintaining his legacy. Life in the art world is beginning to wear on her--and then one fateful afternoon her husband drops a bombshell: he's fathered twins with another woman. Furious but secretly pleased to have a reason to blow up...
25) Firebreak
Author
Series
Parker thrillers volume 20
Publisher
Warner Books/Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
26) The raven
Author
Series
Florentine (Sylvain Reynard) volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of the Gabriel series comes a dark, sensual tale of romance in a city shrouded in mystery. Raven Wood spends her days at Florence's Uffizi gallery restoring Renaissance art. But an innocent walk home after an evening with friends changes her life forever. When she intervenes in the senseless beating of a homeless man, his attackers turn on her, dragging her into an alley. Raven is only semiconscious when...
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 22
Language
English
Description
"Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place where he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over the day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are discreetly enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends his days wandering the streets and canals...
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Israeli art restorer and occasional secret agent Gabriel Allon has a problem. A prominent Swiss banker has called him to Switzerland to restore his Raphael. The problem is that Allon finds the banker dead in front of his Raphael, and he's the prime suspect.
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In the predawn gloom of a February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and snatched one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's The Scream. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police called on the world's greatest art detective, a half-English, half-American undercover cop named Charley Hill. In this rollicking narrative, author Dolnick takes us inside the art underworld. The trail leads high and low, from...
Author
Series
Good thief's guide volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this illustrated early chapter book, Lark and Connor are called upon to defend their friend when he is framed in the theft of a fellow student's artwork at an art show."--
It's a good thing young sleuths Lark and Connor Ba are always prepared because mysteries find them wherever they go. Lark and Connor are excited to visit the local art gallery where some of their classmates have been invited to exhibit their paintings. But when their friend...
32) The marble mask
Author
Series
Joe Gunther mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
34) Stealing Wyeth
Author
Publisher
Barricade Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Andrew Wyeth was one of the best known American artists in the world in the 20th century with his works, including the Helga series, being sought after by serious art collectors worldwide. His father, N.C., and son, Jamie, are integral parts of the best known American family of artists. A gang of thieves decided to steal an original Wyeth painting for their "retirement" and engaged a professional cat burglar (who was responsible for more than 1,500...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Lauren O'Farrell is an "art detective" who made it her mission to retrieve invaluable works stolen by the Nazis during the darkest days of World War II. Her quest leads her to the Manhattan apartment of elderly Isabella Fletcher, whose mother was rumored to have collaborated with the Nazis. But as Isabella reveals the events of her mother's life, Lauren finds herself immersed in an amazing story of courage and secrecy.
36) Last day
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Years ago, Beth Lathrop and her sister suffered through the kidnapping of their mother and the theft of a famous painting. Detective Conor Reid swore to protect them from then on. When the same family painting is stolen again and Beth is murdered, Beth's husband comes under suspicion and Reid vows to solve the crime.
38) Dómina
Author
Publisher
Rocabolsillo
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Creias que lo sabias todo sobre Maestra? El pasado de Judith la persigue de nuevo... Judith Rashleigh nos ha demostrado como, gracias a su trayectoria sangrienta, ha pasado de ser una becaria explotada en una casa de subastas a convertirse en una marchante de arte internacional. Si, Judith ha dejado una estela de sangre en el camino, pero su nueva vida como galerista en Venecia, rodeada de elegancia y codicia, representa todo lo que siempre ha querido...
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