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Art museum curators Crimes against Fiction California Fiction Detective and mystery stories Harper, Benni (Fictitious character) Fiction Kelly, Nora (Fictitious character) Fiction Large type books Museum curators Fiction Quilting Fiction Quiltmakers Fiction Women museum curators FictionGreen, Jocelyn
Summary: "With a notorious forger preying on New York's high society, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Lauren Westlake is just the expert needed to track down the criminal. As she and Detective Joe Caravello search for the truth, the closer they get to discovering the forger's identity, the more entangled they become in a web of deception and crime"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GREMuller, Marcia.
Summary: The director of Santa Barbara's Museum of Mexican Art discovers notes that lead her to a 19th-century treasure chest and into the arms of murderous peril.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MulleSummary: A satirical drama reflecting the times, about the sense of community, moral courage and the affluent person's need for egocentricity in an increasingly uncertain world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SQUSummary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUSElkins, Aaron J.
Summary: Art curator Val Caruso is not a happy camper. His promotion has just been nixed, his divorce has become final, and he's dug himself into a nice little rut for his fortieth birthday. The uplift? A trip to Milan to help Holocaust survivor Sol Bezzecca recover a pair of cherished sketches by Renoir. They'd once been given to Sol's family by the then-unknown artist, looted by the Italian Fascist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELKSilva, Daniel
Summary: Ex-Israeli intelligence agent Gabriel Allon is in Rome when he's asked by his friend Monsignor Luigi Donati, the private secretary to Pope Paul VII, to investigate a death at the Vatican. The victim--a beautiful woman--is thought to have committed suicide, but Allon soon learns that she had been harboring a deadly secret.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Silva 2012Silva, Daniel
Summary: When a body is found beneath Michelangelo's dome, Gabriel Allon is summoned to secretly investigate the death that has been ruled a suicide--a case that brings about an unthinkable act of sabotage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SILSilva, Daniel
Summary: After narrowly surviving his last operation, Gabriel Allon, the wayward son of Israeli intelligence, has taken refuge behind the walls of the Vatican, where he is restoring one of Caravaggio's greatest masterpieces.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SILSummary: In this rare collaborative effort, more than 20 of today's top authors--including R.L. Stine, Lisa Scottoline, and Jeffery Deaver--team up to create a thrilling crime caper filled with betrayal, vengeance, redemption, greed, and love. Rosemary Thomas was put to death for murdering her husband. Now, 10 years later, a memorial service is held for her--and one who attends is the guilt-ridden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Well into their 30s, Juan Nunez and Benjamin Wilson still can't seem to finish veterinary school or leave their parents' homes. Instead, they wallow in comfortable limbo a suburb of Mexico City. On a fateful Christmas Eve, however, they decide it's finally time to distinguish themselves by executing the most infamous cultural artifacts heist in all of Mexican history, looting the country's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUSBrown, Dan
Summary: Robert Langdon, professor of religious symbology at Harvard, is in Paris to give a lecture. At the reception that follows, he is scheduled to meet with a revered curator from the world-famous Louvre museum. But the curator never shows up, and later that night Langdon is awakened by authorities and told that the curator has been found dead. He is then taken to the Louvre the scene of the crime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Elkins, Aaron J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curley Large Print 1994
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ELKPeters, Elizabeth.
Summary: On learning of a plot to rob the treasure-filled Cairo museum, Vicky Bliss, the assistant curator of the Munich National Museum, joins a Nile cruise. The object of the trip is to prevent the burglary by identifying the burglar: the wily Sir John, a master of disguise, who has been her most dangerous antagonist and her occasional lover. By the author of The Last Camel Died at Noon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETFowler, Earlene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beeler Large Print 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M FOWFowler, Earlene.
Summary: When a mysterious sharpshooter with a vendetta takes aim at a local cop during a craft festival, Benni Harper fears for her loved ones, particularly her police chief husband, but still vows to make her hometown safe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWFowler, Earlene.
Summary: Attending the San Celina Mid-State Fair, Benni Harper's enjoyment of the fair's activities are put on hold after the theft of a quilt intended for a special exhibition and the discovery of a corpse in the Piebald Family Farm Exhibit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M FOWFowler, Earlene.
Summary: When her boss, Constance Sinclair, insists that she investigate the death of a local socialite, Benni Harper's search for a killer is threatened by plans to put her quilting museum on the map and a visit from her daunting mother-in-law and "surprise" newhusband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PREGillen, Kieron
Summary: "When a group of Nationalists use an ancient artifact to bring King Arthur back from the dead, retired monster hunter Bridgette McGuire pulls her unsuspecting grandson Duncan, a museum curator, into a world of magic and mysticism to defeat a legendary threat. Now the two must navigate the complicated history of the McGuire family, all while combating the deadly secrets of England's past that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ONCPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PREGraham, Heather.
Summary: The newest member of the Krewe of Hunters elite paranormal team, FBI agent Ryder Stapleton must enlist the help of a beautiful museum curator with an otherworldly ability to track down a serial arsonist setting first to the streets of New Orleans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAMacLean, Julianne
Summary: Gwen Hollingsworth is the curator at a museum in Nova Scotia dedicated to the Hollywood legend Scarlett Fontaine's life. Gwen is also sole descendant and heir to Scarlett's fortune. Gwen is dealing with a messy marital separation and is struggling to move forward. So when Peter Miller, a biographer and photojournalist, come to the museum with shocking claims about Scarlett, which include a life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Fowler, Earlene.
Summary: Ex-cowgirl and quilter Bennie moves to California to start over after the sudden death of her husband. Working as the curator of a folk-art museum, Benni uncovers clues to a small-town murder. Now it's up to this crackerjack sleuth to solve the crime.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007