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Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 2
Language
English
Description
A sequel to "Old Bones" finds FBI agent Corrie Swanson and Santa Fe archaeologist Nora Kelly investigating the mummified corpse of a long-dead victim who died in agony while holding a mysterious sixteenth-century gold cross.
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
First Bennie and her husband find her pick-up truck spray-painted with insults. Then, while organizing a quilt show at her gallery, a bullet whizzes by only inches from her head. Could this mystery shooter have something to do with her husband's past as an undercover police officer?
4) The unknown
Author
Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 35
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 fire to the streets of New Orleans.
6) Acqua alta
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Leon's fifth Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery, the beating of renowned art historian Dotoressa Brett Lynch draws the contemporary Venetian police detective out of his warm and loving home and into the yearly onslaught of acqua alta, the torrential winter rains. Brett, an American who spearheaded a recent exhibition of Chinese pottery in Venice, lives with her lover, Flavia Petrelli, the reigning diva of La Scala. With his open mind and good sense,...
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Folk-art expert Benni Harper returns to the small Arkansas town where she spent her childhood summers, hoping to reconnect with family and friends, but the peaceful place she remembers is now town apart by racial tensions and murder
9) State fair
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Spider web
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Alena: a novel
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A contemporary retelling of Daphne du Maurier's gripping and iconic novel Rebecca, ALENA tells the story of a bright young curator who finds herself haunted by the legacy of her predecessor at a small, cutting-edge art museum on Cape Cod"--
12) Natural history
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Revisiting an unfinished exhibit he had been preparing with a late fashion designer, a natural history museum curator uncovers clues to the story of the designer's remarkable family in Israel, New York, and the Latin American jungle.
13) Grace takes off
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
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.
14) Tumbling blocks
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
When her boss, Constance Sinclair, insists that she investigate the death of a local socialite, Benni Harper's search for the killer is threatened by plans to put her quilting museum on the map and a visit from her daunting mother-in-law and "surprise" new husband.
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Benni's talent for finding trouble surfaces in an unlikely place--her own church. While volunteering at First Baptist--helping Gramma Dove direct the children's musical--Benni finds the beaten body of the handyman. But Walt Adams' death isn't the only mystery in town. The valuable Aznar violin, a historic California Missions period piece, has been stolen. Despite warnings from her husband Gabe, the chief of police, Benni has no other choice but to...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Teaming up in 1925 Shanghai to find a priceless set of scrolls believed to contain the lost history of the Khmer empire, Irene Blum and temple-robber Simone Merlin commit a shockingly violent act before discovering unexpected commonalities in their respective pasts.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chloe Ellefson is making a fresh start in Wisconsin as collections curator at Old World Wisconsin, an outdoor ethnic museum showcasing 19th century settlement life. On her first day, an elderly woman begs her to find a Norwegian ale bowl that had been earlier donated to the museum. However, before Chloe can find the heirloom to return it to her, the elderly woman dies in a suspicious car crash. She soon discovers that digging up the history and location...
Author
Series
Publisher
Beeler Large Print
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Folk-art expert Benni Harper returns to the small Arkansas town where she spent her childhood summers, hoping to reconnect with family and friends, but the peaceful place she remembers is now town apart by racial tensions and murder
19) Little Knell
Author
Series
Inspector C. D. Sloan mysteries volume 18
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector C.D. Sloan is dragged away from his cases to oversee the transfer of an ancient Egyptian mummy and case, but the simple task is soon complicated when the body of a young woman is found inside the case.
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Benni Harper, the sleuth whose crime-solving talents are as colorful and complex as the patchwork she loves, faces her most perplexing case yet as she tries to find out who killed the library storyteller, who was found facedown in the lake
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