James, Tania
Summary: "Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of the Sultan's sons from British captivity. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Monsieur du Leze, Abbas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: "Ocean's Eleven" meets "The Farewell" in this lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity. History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books 2022
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Summary: "One bright Los Angeles day, a young Polish émigrée named Viva is driving along the freeway when she's flagged down by a dazzling, disheveled woman in green chiffon. The woman is Bobby Sleeper, a fellow Eastern European and erstwhile art gallerist with a mysterious background and even more mysterious filmmaker husband. Within days the couple hire Viva as their assistant, then enlist her as an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024
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Bunn, T. Davis
Summary: Still mourning his wife four years after her death, art history teacher and auction house consultant Derek Gaines teams up with Kelly Reid, the head of gallery operations at Christie's Los Angeles, to track down a stolen painting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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Summary: Stone Barrington is on the trail of a ring of art thieves in Santa Fe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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Summary: When Lisa Lee, a vulnerable young woman, vanishes from a pretty Scottish seaside town Anna and Fin find themselves at the centre of an internet frenzy to find her. But Lisa may not be the hapless victim her father thinks. She had an unsuccessful YouTube channel and her last film showed her breaking into an abandoned French Chateau with other UrbExers and stumbling across a priceless Roman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Summary: "Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he's landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2023
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Summary: "The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations' Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick's job is to protect the world's cultural artifacts-including countless lesser-known objects and national...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Art and Camille team up once again to solve a large museum theft, using one of the biggest heists in history to help them solve the case"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Summary: "Art and Camille team up once again to solve a large museum theft, using one of the biggest heists in history to help them solve the case"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "Hugo Marston, head of security for the U.S. Embassy in Paris, is under pressure to catch a killer when a young American woman is attacked at a historic Paris chateau and four paintings are stolen at the same time."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books 2020
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Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2022
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Summary: "For years, there have been whispers that, before his death, Van Gogh completed a final self-portrait. Curators and art historians have savored this rumor, hoping it could illuminate some of the troubled artist's many secrets, but even they have to concede that the missing painting is likely lost forever. But when Luke Perrone, artist and great-grandson of the man who stole the Mona Lisa, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2024
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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 ELKShapiro, Barbara A.
Summary: "It's the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris--broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiance, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2018
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Summary: Emma Sharpe is recovering from a shattering loss while her husband, Colin Donovan, is deep into his latest undercover mission. So they’re grateful to enjoy a peaceful autumn weekend together on the southern Maine coast to celebrate Colin’s brother Andy’s wedding. But the peace is short-lived when Kevin Donovan, a marine patrol officer, receives a call to check on suspected food poisoning at a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2019
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Summary: "After talking her way into a job with Dan Mansfield, the leading investigative reporter in Chicago, rising young journalist Jules Roth is given an unusual-and very secret-assignment. Dan needs her to locate a painting stolen by the Nazis more than 75 years earlier: legendary Expressionist artist Ernst Engel's most famous work, Woman on Fire. World-renowned shoe designer Ellis Baum wants this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022