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...

Josie Prescott investigates the mysterious killing of her friend, Rosalie, and tries to unravel the secrets behind her death, including that of a treasure.

"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."--

Showing a recently acquired doll collection to an investor who is subsequently shot and killed, antiques dealer Josie Prescott is horrified when one of her employees is kidnapped by an abductor who demands the doll collection as ransom.

"In the Buenos Aires art world, a master forger has achieved legendary status. Rumored to be a woman, she specializes in canvases by the painter Mariette Lydis, a portraitist of Argentinean high society. But who is this absurdly gifted creator of counterfeits? What motivates her? And what is her link to the community of artists who congregate, night after night, in a strange establishment called the Hotel Melancólico? On the trail of this mysterious...

"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...

"A woman can have it all and it's faster to steal it. Elizabeth Moynihan is an internationally respected art appraiser, television personality, and a thief at heart. Her elaborate con is in play, but she hasn't accounted for Ben Abrams, n obsessive insurance investigator with a personal connection to the Renoir that Elizabeth has just stolen."--cover.

"In the sixth stand-alone book in The American Novels series, Shelby Ross, a merchant ruined by the depression of 1873-79, is hired as a New York City Custom House appraiser under inspector Herman Melville, the embittered, forgotten author of Moby-Dick. On the docks, Ross befriends a genial young man and makes an enemy of a despicable one, who attempts to destroy them by insinuating that Ross and the young man share an unnatural affection. Ross narrates...

"Seigi, an ordinary university student, works at a jewelry shop run by the decidedly not-ordinary Richard. One day, a young boy named Hajime walks in, takes out a small cat's eye gemstone, and asks Richard for a matching stone. What story lies behind thisparticular request?"--

An appraiser of rare musical instruments traces the history of a blood-red violin and everyone whose lives it touched.