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Author
Series
T.O.A.S.T. mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In Washington, D.C., twelve-year-old Florian Bates, a consulting detective for the FBI, and his best friend Margaret help thwart the biggest art heist in United States history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the critically acclaimed and USA Today bestselling author Charles Finch comes The Vanishing Man , a prequel to his Charles Lenox Victorian series, in which the theft of an antique painting sends Detective Lenox on a hunt for a criminal mastermind. London, 1853: Having earned some renown by solving a case that baffled Scotland Yard, young Charles Lenox is called upon by the Duke of Dorset, one of England's most revered noblemen, for help. A painting...
83) Tokyo heist
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After a high-profile art heist of three van Gogh drawings in her home town of Seattle, sixteen-year-old Violet Rossi finds herself in Japan with her artist father, searching for the related van Gogh painting.
84) Confess, Fletch
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this delightful comedy romp, the roguishly charming and endlessly troublesome Fletch becomes the prime suspect in a murder case while searching for a stolen art collection. The only way to prove his innocence? Find out which of the long list of suspects is the culprit from the eccentric art dealer and a missing playboy to a crazy neighbor and Fletch's Italian girlfriend. Crime has never been this disorganized.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
French detective Luc Moncrief joined the NYPD for a fresh start but someone wants to make his first big case his last. Gorgeous women are dropping dead at upscale department stores in New York City. Detective Moncrief and Detective Katherine Burke are close to solving the mystery, but looks can be deceiving. In the heart of the holiday season, priceless paintings have vanished from a Park Avenue murder scene. Now, dashing Detective Moncrief must become...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"FBI Agent Kate O'Hare is a force of nature, and she's lived for one thing and one thing only: to put the slippery conman known as Nicolas Fox behind bars. Nick is a fed's worst nightmare: exceptionally talented in his line of work, known the world over for being able to pull off some of the most dangerous, high-profile cons. In a cruel twist of fate, Kate's bosses at the FBI force her to covertly partner up with Nick to take down big league crime....
Author
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Gareth Fitzallen is celebrated for four things: his handsome face, his notable charm, his aristocratic connections, and an ability to give the kind of pleasure that has women begging for more. Normally he bestows his talents on experienced, worldly women. But when he heads to Langdon's End to restore a property he inherited--and to investigate a massive art theft--he lays plans to seduce a most unlikely lady.
88) Heist and seek
Author
Series
InvestiGators volume 6
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When rare paintings go missing, the InvestiGators are called on the scene...the ART SCENE! Mango and Brash go undercover and under canvas as internationally renowned painters to expose a crook who has truly mastered the art of CRIME! Can they recover the missing masterpieces and save the city art museum's fundraising gala before it's too late...and they run out of appetizers? Find out in this latest pièce de résistance of action-packed illustrated...
Author
Series
Unsolved case files volume 3
Publisher
Harper Alley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Two thieves posing as Boston Police officers gain entry to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Once inside, they steal thirteen pieces of art, including several rare Rembrandts. Eighty-one minutes later, these men walk off with $500 million worth of art. This heist is the single largest private property theft in the United States--and despite decades of investigation and dozens of false leads, the case remains unsolved to this day.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An old-money East Coast family faces the suspicious death of its patriarch and the unsolved theft of a Goya painting rumored to be cursed. There are four cousins in the Morse family: perfect Kenny, the preppy West Coast lawyer; James, the shy but brilliant medical student; his seductive, hard-drinking sister Audrey; and Teresa, youngest and most fragile, haunted by the fear that she has inherited the madness that possessed her father. Their grandfather...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An old wound forces Cold Case Detective Lauren Riley onto Injured on Duty leave. Unless she rests she faces the threat of early retirement. However, dreading the prospect of doing nothing for six months, Lauren renews her private investigator license.She's soon contacted by Sharon Whitney, the ex-wife of wealthy Buffalo resident - and suspected mob boss - Howard Whitney. During their bitter divorce twenty years earlier a Picasso painting was stolen...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
While tracking down stolen artifacts from Boston to Ireland to the coast of Maine, Emma Sharpe, the granddaughter of a world-renowned art detective, and her fiancé, FBI deep-cover agent Colin Donovan, must outwit one of the smartest, most ruthless killers they have ever encountered.
93) Heist society
Author
Series
Heist society novels volume 1
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.
94) Losing ground
Author
Series
Inspector C. D. Sloan mysteries volume 21
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The dramatic theft of an 18th century painting is discovered just moments before the old manor house from which it was stolen is set on fire. Making matters more grisly is the pile of bones sighted in the blazing inferno moments before the roof collapses. What started as simple, if surprising, theft has quickly escalated to arson and, possibly murder, and now Detective Inspector Sloan and Detective Constable Crosby have to piece together, a puzzle...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"The charming Eduardo de Valfierno makes a very respectable living in Argentina fleecing the nouveau rich--they pay him to steal valuable pieces of art, and Valfierno sells them flawless forgeries instead. But when Eduardo meets the beautiful Mrs. Hart on his latest con, he takes a risk that forces him back to the city he loved and left behind--Paris. There he assembles his team of con artists for their final and most ambitious theft, one that will...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A high-speed, high-stakes thriller from Ken Follett, the grand master of international action and suspense. Look out for Ken's newest book, A Column of Fire, available now. A fabulous "lost masterpiece" becomes the ultimate prize--for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life away. Behind...
Author
Series
Her Majesty the Queen investigates volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Amateur detective Queen Elizabeth II is back in this hugely entertaining follow-up to The Windsor Knot, in which Her Majesty must determine how a missing painting is connected to the shocking death of a staff member inside Buckingham Palace"--
Publisher
Hallmark
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A Beautiful Place to Die: After being forced into retirement, former detective Jeff Jackson returns to a quiet life on Martha's Vineyard. Quiet, at least, until a body washes up and he's drawn back into crime solving.
Riddled With Deceit: Former detective Jeff Jackson teams up with Dr. Zee Madeiras to track down their friend's missing emerald brooch, a thief, and also a murderer.
Ships in the Night: When an art gallery robbery leads to the death...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune.
100) The Paris deception
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
While working at the Jeu de Paume Museum, Sophie, who fled Germany after witnessing the government-sanctioned burning of modern, "degenerate" art, steals looted masterpieces from the Nazis, replacing them with forgeries with the help of her sister-in-law, risking more than her life to keep these paintings safe.
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