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Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In the Welsh cottage she inherited from schoolteacher Emma Teasdale, Penny Brannigan discovers a package of letters that reveal Emma's lesbian affair with a Liverpool artist who was killed in a suspicious hit-and-run accident.
42) Malice House
Author
Series
Malice compendium volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Deciding to illustrate a disturbing, secret handwritten manuscript from her late Pulitzer Prize-winning father, aspiring artist Haven Marbury is plunged into a nightmarish world when a monstrous creature appears, forcing her to uncover dark, otherworldly family secrets to rewrite everything she thought she knew about herself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Willow Bellamy, an artist and art teacher with a magical gift for solving murders, and her owl, Rembrandt, team up with a handsome, mysterious detective to find out who killed a much despised restaurant owner.
44) Alchemystic
Author
Series
Spellmason chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and "one of our greatest living writers" (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. It's been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she's almost a new person now-an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When the pregnant teenage daughter of a wealthy newcomer to Llanelen is found dead in the nearby woods, spa owner Penny Brannigan investigates the family's suspicious financial dealings while her paramour, Detective Inspector Davies, tracks down the killer.
47) Eden mine
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From an act of political violence that tears apart a family's faith and community, S. M. Hulse crafts a compelling novel that mines the deep rifts that come when the reach of the government clashes with individual freedom"--
48) Driftwood Point
Author
Series
Chesapeake diaries volume 10
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
While recording her great-grandmother's stories of Cannonball Island's rich history, artist Lisbeth Parker goes up against a man from her past, Alec Jansen, who is on the opposite side of the debate over the island's future.
49) Carousel Beach
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A cryptic letter on her grandmother's grave and a puzzling inscription on a carousel horse lead artist Maya Brice to ninety-year-old Hank Hauser. While stripping chipped layers of paint from the old horses and peeling, fragmented memories from their mysterious carver, Maya untangles the intertwined secrets of love, heartbreak and misunderstandings among three generations of strong willed women.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After stumbling upon the dead body of an Elvis impersonator during the celebrity impersonating contest, psychic painter Celeste Cabot is 'all shook up, ' and she, with the help of his spirit, sets out to find the real killer among all the fake celebrities"--
53) Through my eyes
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When artist Jill Moncrieff's childhood friend Cooper was falsely accused of a crime, she had to return to the stifling world of wealth and privilege she had escaped years earlier. Hiring hotshot attorney Peter Hathaway was the best thing for Cooper but the worst thing for Jill, not only because he embodied everything she had rejected, but because he was unforgivably alluring...and she was unforgivably tempted.
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.
Author
Series
Texas Rangers (Carla Neggers) volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
57) Roses and rot
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Imogen has grown up reading fairy tales about mothers who die and make way for cruel stepmothers. As a child, she used to lie in bed wishing that her life would become one of these tragic fairy tales because she couldn't imagine how a stepmother could be worse than her mother now. As adults, Imogen and her sister Marin are accepted to an elite post-grad arts program; Imogen as a writer and Marin as a dancer. Soon enough, though, they realize that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Point Blank
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the village of Spire, murder is afoot. Rich landowner Alexander, 9th Earl of Greengrass, is caught with his trousers down in the village graveyard before meeting a gruesome end. Luckily Susie Mahl happens to be on hand. With her artist's eye for detail and her curious nature she is soon on the scent of the murderer."--Back cover.
59) Watch me die
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Mira Gallier finds her personal life and career are blossoming after years of pain over the loss of her husband in Hurricane Katrina, but everything changes when she is attacked by a man known as "The Preacher," who is soon after found dead, and a series of events unfold, leading Mira to become a suspect for the murder of her own assistant, and mirages of her dead husband cause Mira to question her own sanity.
60) Fair play
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Two women, both artists, live and work on opposite sides of a large apartment building. They have loved and argued for decades. Yet no matter how many times they've played the game, it is always capable of surprising them.
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