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Parker thrillers volume 20
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Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the whole world of crime changed. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital-the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone.
But cash isn't everything: Flashfire and Firebreak find Parker going after, respectively, a fortune in jewels and...
Author
Series
14 day mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Instead of spending a carefree summer exploring downtown Boston with best friend Ollie, thirteen-year-old Moxie must solve a famous art heist in order to protect those she loves from her ailing grandfather's gangster past. Includes facts about the 1990 Gardner Museum art theft.
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His gift is a rare talent; his art celebrates an important American legacy. But it's born from a torment that might make him as dangerous as he is irresistible. Wealthy, beautiful and sophisticated, Cassandra Westbrook collects exquisite art objects with a connoisseur's fine taste and a rich woman's whims. She always dominates an art auction – until a mysterious artist named Thomas Warrior bids against her for a set of Native American ledger drawings....
Author
Series
Roxy Abruzzo mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
viii, 310 p. ; 25 cm.
Author
Series
Chasing Vermeer volume 4
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Description
When thirteen high-value pieces of art are stolen from a secret museum, Calder, Petra, and Tommy are grouped with two new companions to solve puzzles that are complicated by the clever Mrs. Sharpe.
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 2
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
381 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
A sometime Israeli spy and now art restorer finds himself in a spirla of events involving stolen art, an old suicide, trail of killings some his own and an assassin that he himself trained.
10) Stealing Lumby
Author
Series
Lumby novels volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
399 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
When one of the most important paintings of the century, The Barns of Lumby, is stolen, a media frenzy descends on the little town.
12) The art thief
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio Inc
Pub. Date
p2007
Physical Desc
8 CDs (10 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the wake of the thefts of three priceless art treasures from Rome, Paris, and London, art detective Gabriel Coffin and art historian Genevieve Delacloche team up to investigate a series of false leads, forgeries, and bizarre clues.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 22 cm
Description
After moving to Rome with her father, thirteen-year-old Beatrice witnesses a shadowy figure steal the turtle sculptures from a fountain located outside her window and is determined to solve the crime herself when no one believes her story.
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Series
Hollywood Station volume 4
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A circle of teenage burglars that the media has dubbed The Bling Ring has taken to pillaging the homes of Hollywood celebutants, and when a pair of drug-addled young copycats stumbles upon an art heist, that's just the beginning of the disaster to come. Soon LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss, surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, and the rest of the team at Hollywood Station have a deadly situation on their hands.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
viii, 517 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
When the painter Botticelli doesn't pay Luciana Vetra for her work as one of his models, she steals an unfinished painting. After people around her start dying--murdered by someone who wants the painting and its secrets back--Luciana goes on the run, looking for answers.
17) The hypnotist
Author
Series
Reincarnationist volume 3
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Lucian Glass, special agent with the FBI's Art Crime Team, questions his own faith after a brutal attack, while a modern-day reincarnationist will stop at nothing to find tools to aid in past-life regressions.
18) Heist society
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Series
Heist society novels volume 1
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Description
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.
19) Headhunters
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
265, 21 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Roger Brown is a headhunter and art thief living beyond his means and when he meets Clas Greve, a corporate candidate who reveals that he owns a priceless Rubens painting, Roger breaks into his apartment, initiating a series of events which puts Roger's life in danger.
Author
Series
Good thief's guide volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
280 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
Fresh from a successful Paris book reading, mystery writer and professional thief Charlie Howard is hired by his fence to steal an oil painting from the apartment at which he had been demonstrating his larcenous skills a day earlier.
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