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On Central Park novels volume 1
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English
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"With a notorious forger preying on New York's high society, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Lauren Westlake is just the expert needed to track down the criminal. As she and Detective Joe Caravello search for the truth, the closer they get to discovering the forger's identity, the more entangled they become in a web of deception and crime"-- Provided by publisher.
Dr. Lauren Westlake always promised her father she'd accompany him on one of his...
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 12
Language
English
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When a body is found beneath Michelangelo's dome, Gabriel Allon is summoned to secretly investigate the death that has been ruled a suicide--a case that brings about an unthinkable act of sabotage.
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
©1994.
Language
English
Description
On learning of a plot to rob the treasure-filled Cairo museum, Vicky Bliss, the assistant curator of the Munich National Museum, joins a Nile cruise. The object of the trip is to prevent the burglary by identifying the burglar: the wily Sir John, a master of disguise, who has been her most dangerous antagonist and her occasional lover. By the author of The Last Camel Died at Noon.
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English
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"When Marshfield Manor hosts a charity event, Grace Wheaton, the museum's curator and manager, is happy to lend a helping hand--until a killer makes an unwanted donation. With the town clock in desperate need of repair, local lawyer Joyce Swedburg and her ex-husband, Dr. Leland Keay, are trying to put aside their differences to organize a benefit at Marshfield Manor to raise money for restoration of the beautiful timepiece. While Grace appreciates...
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Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Assisting her friend's efforts to turn an abandoned mill into a museum, curator Chloe Ellefson investigates the discovery of a body in a grain chute, while back home her boyfriend uncovers dangerous secrets in the wake of a fellow officer's death.
7) The unknown
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English
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"Sienna Murray was only fourteen when she pulled her neighbors out of a raging house fire. A decade later, she still can't explain what happened that night, how she knew to save them at just the right moment--or why she receives the same mysterious warning when it happens again... New member of the Krewe of Hunters elite paranormal team Detective Ryder Stapleton doesn't believe in coincidences. So when the suspicious fire he's called to investigate...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Searching for the truth behind the secret she's long concealed, Dora, a former domestic servant, is given curatorship of The National Museum of the Worker by her lover, a place that isn't at all what it seems as she unravels a monstrous conspiracy that brings her to the edge of worlds.
It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed “the Fairest”, it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half;...
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Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Chloe Ellefson is making a fresh start in Wisconsin as collections curator at Old World Wisconsin, an outdoor ethnic museum showcasing 19th century settlement life. On her first day, an elderly woman begs her to find a Norwegian ale bowl that had been earlier donated to the museum. However, before Chloe can find the heirloom to return it to her, the elderly woman dies in a suspicious car crash. She soon discovers that digging up the history and location...
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Robert Langdon novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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The Da Vinci Code has intrigued and thrilled millions of readers around the world. Now all the artwork, symbols, architecture, and historic locations, over 160 images, are beautifully compiled in this full-color collector's edition. A mind-bending code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci. A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe. An astonishing truth concealed for centuries, unveiled at last. While in Paris on business, Harvard...
11) Reliquary
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Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1998, ©1997.
Language
English
Description
A sequel to "The Relic" which has NYPD Lt. D'Agosta, Natural History Museum curator Margo Green, and a host of returning characters involved in a new investigation spurred by the discovery of the decapitated remains of a New York socialite and a sharp increase in the decapitation rate among the city's underground homeless.
12) Seven sisters
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Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Quilter and rancher Benni Harper is forced to use all of her amateur sleuthing talents when she becomes entangled in the dark and tragic secrets of a feuding family as she investigates a brutal crime that hits all too close to home.
13) Spider web
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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The Memory Festival is a celebration of recollections and loved ones through crafts. But when a local cop is wounded by a mysterious sharpshooter who seems to have a vendetta against the police, Benni fears for "her" loved ones, especially her police chief husband.
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A woman photographer is killed on the ranch of PI Benni Harper in California. The murder occurs during a Thanksgiving reunion and is a case of jealousy involving two men. Benni must decide which one did it.
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Series
Odd Singsaker volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A murder at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, bears a close resemblance to one in Trondheim, Norway. The corpse of the museum curator in Virginia is found flayed in his office by the cleaning staff; the corpse of an archivist at the library in Norway, is found inside a locked vault used to store delicate and rare books. Richmond homicide detective Felicia Stone and Trondheim police inspector Odd Singsaker find themselves working on...
16) State fair
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Attending the San Celina Mid-State Fair, Benni Harper's enjoyment of the fair's activities are put on hold after the theft of a quilt intended for a special exhibition and the discovery of a corpse in the Piebald Family Farm Exhibit.
17) Echoes of evil
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Krewe of Hunters volume 26
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Brodie McFadden is supposed to be on vacation, getting some sunshine and deciding if he wants to join his brothers and the Krewe of Hunters, a special paranormal investigation unit of the FBI. But a diving excursion with an old navy buddy to a historic shipwreck uncovers a crime scene - and the corpse is new. Museum curator Dakota "Kody" McCoy just wants her Key West culture festival to succeed. She's always had a deep connection to her home, including...
18) Old bones
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Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator at the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute, is approached by a historian, Clive Benton, with the opportunity to lead an expedition unlike any other. It begins with the story of the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with tales of courage,...
19) Tumbling blocks
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Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When her boss, Constance Sinclair, insists that she investigate the death of a local socialite, Benni Harper's search for a killer is threatened by plans to put her quilting museum on the map and a visit from her daunting mother-in-law and "surprise" newhusband.
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Christopher Thomas, a curator at San Francisco's McFall Art Museum is murdered and his wife, Rosemary, is tried, convicted, and executed. But ten years later, Detective Jon Nunn uncovers evidence that convinces him the wrong person was put to death, and as he tries to right the wrong, he realizes someone will stop at nothing to ensure that secrets stay buried. A serial novel featuring contributions by twenty-five masters of suspense.
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