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English
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Vicky Bliss, peerless art historian and sleuth, searches for solutions to more than one heinous offense in the ever-shifting sands of Egypt's mysterious Valley of the Kings. When her longtime significant other, John Tregarth, the suave and dangerously charming international art thief, is accused of taking a world-famous, one-of-a-kind historic relic, it is up to Bliss to clear his name.
2) Color blind
Author
Series
Kate McKinnon novels volume 2
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Art historian Vicky Bliss may be blond and beautiful, but looks can be deceiving. She also has the brain of an Einstein, the reckless courage of a test pilot -- and no one's more savvy about fine works of art. For example: the gold pendant her boss at Munich's National Museum is currently dangling in front of her. It's an exquisite replica of a Charlemagne talisman -- and it was found, along with a note written in hieroglyphs, sewn into the suit...
8) Sabbath
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The infamous 11th-century warrior Hexen Sabbath is plucked from death and certain damnation by a being claiming to be an angel of the Lord, and finds himself dropped into contemporary Manhattan with no clothes, no weapons, no resources, and one mission--to track down and kill the living personifications of the Seven Deadly Sins before they bring about Armageddon.ddon.
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
New England art history professor Sweeney St. George returns for her second brush with death (after the Agatha Award finalist O' Artful Death) as she investigates the death of a student, a descendant of a prominent family and collector of 19th-century mourning jewelry.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A comedic novel about an American woman leaving her 20-year marriage to her French husband, returning to her native San Francisco to pick up the life she left behind, and the entwining lives of her children and grandchildren"--
11) O' artful death
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Series
Publisher
St. Martins Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Art historian Sweeney St. George's interest in an unusual late-Victorian gravestone sculpture takes her to a former art colony in Vermont. Her arrival coincides with the suspicious death of an old local lady who believed that the young woman in the grave Sweeney is seeking was murdered. Sweeney investigates, attempting to find out who carved the beautiful monument and what really happened to the young woman. Her search into local family backgrounds...
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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"A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss, drawing her and an arrogant male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Here, where the blood of the long forgotten damned stains ancient stones, Vicky must face...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Sweeney's chance encounter with a young boy sparks her interest in the boy's Revolutionary War-era ancestor, a stonecutter and gravestone maker. Coincidentally, Sweeney and the boy also stumble on the body of a murdered man in Revolutionary War clothing near the site of a recent historical reenactment. And, to make things more interesting, it turns out the dead man was writing a book on the boy's stonecutter ancestor. Sweeney and homicide detective...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten-certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by privileged students whose futures are already paved out for them, Raquel feels like an outsider. Students of color, like her, are the...
15) Optic nerve
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Whenever I'm in survival mode I find myself magnetised by museums and galleries, like people running for air raid shelters in wartime." The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of moments that have touched her. In these pages, El Greco visits the Sistine Chapel and is appalled...
16) Still as death
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Art history professor Sweeney St. George is in the middle of putting together an exhibit on her specialty, "the art of death," for the university museum when she makes an unusual discovery: A valuable piece of Egyptian funerary jewelry that should be in the museum's collection seems to be missing. Searching for answers, Sweeney learns that a student intern at the museum was the last person to check out the piece, a young woman who died of an apparent...
17) Picasso's lovers
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A lushly drawn drama of Pablo Picasso's muses, the secret love affairs that inspired some of his greatest works, and the enduring influence of love and art Alana Olson always felt connected to Pablo Picasso. Sure, as a recently graduated art historian and aspiring writer in 1950s New York, Alana was bound to encounter the most renowned artist of the era, but it was her late Italian mother's particular fascination with the man that inspired Alana's...
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