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2012.
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First in a New England mystery series featuring a formidable pair of widow-sleuths and “a baffling mystery that will keep readers turning the pages” (Publishers Weekly).
Something wicked has come to Grenville, Connecticut, where high-end antique dealers are being murdered in gruesome—yet fitting—ways. It’s shaking up the lives of Lil Campbell and Ada Strauss, widows who have become best...
Something wicked has come to Grenville, Connecticut, where high-end antique dealers are being murdered in gruesome—yet fitting—ways. It’s shaking up the lives of Lil Campbell and Ada Strauss, widows who have become best...
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"Lucas Davenport returns, in one of the most startling Prey novels yet from the number-one-bestselling author. In the richest neighborhood of Minneapolis, two elderly women lie murdered in their home, killed with a metal pipe, the rooms tossed, only small items stolen. It is clearly the random work of someone looking for money to buy drugs. But as he looks more closely, Davenport begins to wonder if the items are actually so small or the victims so...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
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A dark secret threatens the lives of two sisters, Kate and Hannah Connelly, when their family-owned furniture firm, famous for its fine reproductions of antiques, explodes into flames in the middle of the night, leveling the buildings to the ground, including the museum where priceless antiques have been on permanent display for years. What was Kate, a CPA for one of the biggest accounting firms in the country, and whose sister is a rising fashion...
4) Ransom
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"Liz Cantrell is terrified when she receives a call from a man holding her newlywed sister captive--and she's convinced her sketchy brother-in-law's involved. Willing to pay any price for her sister's freedom, Liz flies to Niagara Falls with the ransom: an uncut diamond necklace worth millions. But the moment she lands, a handsome, world-weary Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent takes her into custody. Blake Fallon's determined to catch a ruthless...
5) Hidden
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At first glance, few would guess that Luna and Cullan Bodman are siblings. Cullan, efficient and serious, is rarely out of a business suit. Luna reads palms and tarot cards, and loves flowing skirts and dangling jewelry that matches her unconventional spirit. Still, her artistic eye is an asset to the family's furniture restoration business. When Cullan stumbles across something unexpected in a piece he just...
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Jim Brodie thrillers volume 3
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English
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In recognition for his role in solving the Japantown murders in San Francisco, antiques dealer and sometime-PI Jim Brodie has just been brought on as the liaison for the mayor's new Pacific Rim Friendship Program. Brodie in turn recruits his friend, the renowned Japanese artist Ken Nobuki, and after a promising meeting with city officials and a picture-perfect photo op, Brodie and Nobuki leave City Hall for a waiting limo. But as soon as they exit...
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Gunnarstranda and Frolich novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Detective Frank Frolich and Inspector Gunnarstranda investigate the mysterious murder of an elderly antique dealer which leads them to disturbing facts about the victim's past following the Nazi occupation of Norway.
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"A world of big bucks deals and off-the-record promises, the high-end auction industry is a game of the elite. After eight years in the American Furniture department at Christie's, Carolyn Everett is a rising star. The 29-year-old has just sold the most expensive piece of American furniture ever made and four months later, acquires the country's premiere private furniture collection. But one wrong decision and a scandal that rocks Christie's leaves...
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Jim Brodie thrillers volume 2
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English
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"Struggling San Francisco antiques dealer Jim Brodie is back in Japan. After wading through the tragedy of the Japantown murders, he and his daughter have returned for a well-earned vacation. Checking in at the P.I. firm he inherited from his father, he's startled by the arrival of an old World War II veteran and his son. The father has come explicitly to see Brodie, and offers up a dark story connected to the war and a pair of violent home invasions...
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Storm Syrrell adventure volume 02
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English
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Antiquities dealer Storm Syrrell finds herself in a high-stakes game of cloak-and-dagger. Handsome Raphael Danton has hired her to represent a mysterious buyer who's snapping up sacred relics. When the Black Madonna of Czestochowa is stolen, she's determined to find it. Can she trust Danton---or has she lost her heart to a deceitful adventurer?
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2014.
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English
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"Catherine's last job ended badly. Corporate bullying at a top antiques publication saw her fired and forced to leave London, but she was determined to get her life back. A new job and a few therapists later, things look much brighter. Especially when a challenging new project presents itself -- to catalogue the late M. H. Mason's wildly eccentric cache of antique dolls and puppets. Rarest of all, she'll get to examine his elaborate displays of posed,...
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Archaeological volume 11
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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Antiques dealer Lara McClintoch is asked by a friend to purchase a T'ang dynasty silver box at a New York auction. Etched with an alchemical formula for immortality, the extremely rare box may sell for up to three hundred thousand dollars. But minutes before the auction, the box is withdrawn. Lara, her friend, and museum curator Burton Haldimand are all disappointed. Later, in Beijing, Lara and Burton watch as the box is stolen in a bold heist. Then...
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Select editions large type volume 149, June 2007
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