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Boston painter Claire Roth has survived financially by painting reproductions, so when influential gallery owner Aiden Markel arrives with a bizarre proposal--her own show if she will forge a copy of a Degas, one of the pictures stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--she says yes. As she works, Claire and Aiden become lovers, but she doesn't tell him about her discovery that the stolen Degas is itself a copy. This knowledge is Claire's lifeline...
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Grantchester mysteries volume 1
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Introduces unconventional clergyman Sidney Chambers, who teams up with roguish Inspector Harry Keating to investigate a suspicious suicide, a jewelry theft, the unexplained demise of a jazz promoter, and a shocking art forgery.
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Wicked trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"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. Eva Russell lives a spinster's life of...
6) Still life
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Karen Pirie novels volume 6
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2020.
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English
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"The UK's "Queen of Crime" Val McDermid returns to her propulsive series featuring cold case detective Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem. Still Life is intensely gripping from the first page and further proof that McDermid is writing at the top of her game. When a lobster fisherman on an early morning run pulls in his traps, he finds something he wasn't expecting to catch-a...
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"August, 1911: The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens in the two years before its recovery is a mystery. Many replicas of the Mona Lisa exist, and more than one historian has wondered if the painting now in the Louvre is a fake, switched in 1911. Present day: art professor Luke Perrone digs for the truth behind his most famous ancestor: Peruggia. His search attracts an Interpol detective with something to prove and an unfamiliar...
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The murder of a federal prosecutor with an art forgery in his hotel room draws FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan and HIT, their small, elite Boston-based team, into a high-stakes hunt for an assassin who has killed before and will kill again. The high-stakes hunt draws on Emma's expertise in art crimes and her past as a novice with a convent specializing in art conservation, on Colin's experience as a deep-cover agent, and on the strengths...
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 4
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English
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In addition to being the nosiest and most sypathetic philosopher you are likely to meet, Isabel is now a mother. Charlies, her newborn son, presents her with a myriad wonders of a new life, and doting father Jamie presents her with an intriguing proposal: marriage. In the midst of all this, she receives a disturbing letter announcing that she has been ousted as editor of the Review of Applied Ethics by the ambitious Professor Dove. None of these things,...
14) Grace takes off
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Berkley Prime Crime
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2013
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English
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A trip to Italy's Tuscan countryside is a dream come true for Grace Wheaton, curator and manager of Marshfield Manor, until her boss becomes the target of a murderer.
15) Faking it
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Dempseys volume 2
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St. Martin's Press
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[2002]
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English
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Tilda Goodnight, one of a long line of art forgers, tries to save her family by going straight, but things become complicated when she tries to steal back a painting she did years earlier and has an encounter in a closet with semi-reformed con man Davy Dempsey.
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Mira
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[2023]
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English
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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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Harperaudio
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2008
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English
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Chaz is an artistic genius. With a very ill son and an estranged wife whom he still loves but cannot provide for financially, Chaz accepts a commission to 'restore' an antique fresco in a European castle. When he gets there, he discovers there's very little left to restore and the job is more of a 're-creation;' some would call it a forgery. Chaz embarks on a journey that tests not only his artistic genius, but his moral convictions.
18) Quick and dirty
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Stone Barrington novels volume 43
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English
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A latest entry in the best-selling series finds New York City cop turned Manhattan law firm rainmaker Stone Barrington tackling an explosive case that tests his signature composure. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Chiefs.
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Commissario Alec Blume novels volume 2
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Alec Blume returns to action in this intricate and heart-pounding new novel. With the help of his associate Caterina, Blume is called to the scene of a death connected to a spate of muggings. Though the Carabinieri-military police-are trying to control the investigation, Blume, never one to bow to authority, pursues it his own way. When it becomes clear that the victim is an art forger, enemies-and hidden treasures-begin to emerge. Relying on old...
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Templar novels (Paul Christopher) volume 9
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Signet Book
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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After his niece and her fiancé are brutally murdered, Holliday vows to avenge their deaths and finish their work by finding a long-lost Dead Sea Scroll. But in doing so, he stumbles upon a conspiracy linking the Catholic Church to an illicit art forgery operation involving the Nazis. Hunted by those determined to hide the truth, Holliday and Interpol agent Peter Lazarus embark on a desperate race from the vaults of the Vatican to the deserts of...
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