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Josie Prescott is hosting classes at her antiques shop in the little coastal town of Rocky Point, New Hampshire. When guest lecturer Riley Jordan is late for the class on building a great vintage clothing collection, Josie begins. She reaches under a display table for a dazzling pair of Chanel heels, and instead finds Riley's body. When it appears one of her employees may be involved, Josie teams up with the local police chief to investigate.
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Sterling Glass mysteries volume 2
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Hired to assess the value of broken and missing antiques following a suspicious burglary at a Virginia manor house, intrepid appraiser and amateur sleuth Sterling Glass finds that her job is more complicated than she'd anticipated. The antiques, she realizes, are not always what they seem: some are worth tens of thousands, others are well-done replicas.
Whether the well-traveled and well-heeled couple who once owned Wynderly could have been trafficking...
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"The Peregrine family's lives are turned upside down one summer when so-called "art experts" appear on the doorstep of their Connecticut island home to appraise a favorite heirloom painting. When incriminating papers, as well as other paintings, are discovered behind the artwork in question, the appraisal turns into a full-fledged investigation. Antagonism mounts between grandmother, mother, and child, who begin to suspect one another, as well as...
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"Discovering the murdered body of a neighbor in the home of a corrupt tax assessor, poet Victoria Trumbull stumbles across two additional bodies before teaming up with an old rival, chauffeur Emery Meyer, to identify the killer."--from NoveList.
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Pike Wisconsin volume 05
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"Over the years, small-town Pike, Wisconsin, has seen its share of shady characters, murderers, and serial killers--and not all of them have landed behind bars. For some folks, solving cold cases from the safety of the virtual world is a harmless diversion--but the stakes can be deadly . . . An online crime-solving group is just the kind of adventure Bailey Evans needs. She loves her nursing career and small-town life, but her days are predictable....
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Sterling Glass has built a nice appraisal business in her small Virginia town. She's sought after to examine antiques, research their history, present her clients with approximate values, and help them distinguish good antiques from not so good ones. And when family skeletons are unearthed among the heirlooms, she is the soul of discretion. It's a world she navigates with ease.
But that's before she's called in to examine a diamond brooch found...
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Miss Julia series volume 18
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When Miss Julia hears that Miss Mattie Freeman has taken a fall and is in the hospital, she wishes she'd spent more time getting to know the woman and not just because she's the last person in town to hear about the accident! So when the tumble proves fatal, the last thing Miss Julia expects is a phone call from Mr. Ernest Sitton, Attorney at Law: Miss Julia is named executor of Mattie Freeman's last will and testament, and it looks like her last...
10) Antique blues
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"When amateur sleuth and antiques expert Josie Prescott is called in to appraise a Japanese woodblock print and vintage guitar for her friend Mo, shes thrilled, until Mo is murdered. Josie's antiques know how and detective skills soon lead her down an increasingly perplexing trail, scattered with gamblers, extramarital affairs, and under the table purchases."--
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Annie's secrets of the quilt volume 08
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[2016]
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Sofia Parker's love of art has always been a driving force in her life. How appropriate it is when she discovers that the eighth block of the priceless heirloom quilt she inherited from her grandmother leads her back to nineteenth century England and Beatrice Kimble, one of the first female art appraisers in history. Beatrice, on a special assignment from London's National Gallery, is on her way to evaluate the collection of Lord Blackwell in the...
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