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Gabriel Allon volume 12
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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.
2) Faking it
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"Meet the Goodnights, a respectable family who run a respectable art gallery--and have for generations. There's Gwen, the matriarch, who likes to escape reality; Eve, the oldest daughter, who has a slight identity problem (she has two); Nadine, the granddaughter, who's ready to follow in the family footsteps as soon as she can find a set that isn't leading off a cliff. And last, Matilda, the youngest daughter, who has inherited the secret locked down...
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800L
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While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see--yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins...
Pub. Date
2021
Summary
After newlywed Georgina's billionaire husband Constantine is killed in a yacht explosion, she is shocked to discover the fortune and lifestyle he maintained was surrounded by violence, lies, secrets and murder. She soon must step out of her comfort zone to protect the family and herself.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Wes and Diana are the kind of privileged, well-educated, self-involved New Yorkers you may not want to like but can't help wanting to like you. With his boyish good looks, blue-blood pedigree, and the recent tidy valuation of his tech startup, Wes would have made any woman weak in the knees--any woman, that is, except perhaps his wife. Brilliant to the point of cunning, Diana possesses her own arsenal of charms, handily deployed against Wes in their...
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On Central Park volume 1
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"For years her explorer father promised Dr. Lauren Westlake she'd accompany him on one of his Egyptian expeditions. But as the empty promises mounted, Lauren determined to earn her own way. Now the assistant curator of Egyptology for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lauren receives two unexpected invitations. The first is her repentant father's offer to finally bring her to Egypt as his colleague on a new expedition. The second is a chance to enter...
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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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Pub. Date
2019.
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"Some are born with a perfect palate, others with a perfect pitch. Denver Art Museum Curator of Paintings Lilly Sparks was born with a perfect eye. When the museum's billionaire benefactor is brutally murdered, the grisly tableau stuns her; it's the human embodiment of the museum's prized landscape by famed impressionist Gustave Caillebotte. Lily comes to believe that the Caillebotte was forged and the killer is a painter the art world has spurned....
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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"Weaving her family narrative into the larger story of twentieth-century art and culture, Selz paints [a] ... portrait of her charismatic father--the chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art and director of his own art museum in California]-- ... the generation of modern artists he championed, and the daughter whose life he shaped"--Dust jacket flap.