The story of the Reesers, a Jewish family who emigrated to Canada from Czechoslovakia on the eve of WWII. They fled the Nazis and left behind four valuable oil paintings. It would take years for the Reeser family, led by matriarch Mari...
Art thefts
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Author:Li, Grace D.Summary:History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now. Will Chen plans to steal them back. A...
- Author:Peters, ElizabethSummary:
While on an all-expenses-paid cruise down the Nile, Vicky takes on a new case involving a plot to rob the Egyptian museum. With Sir John Smythe--reformed jewel thief and Vicky's lover--the prime suspect, she prepares for shipboard...
- Author:Dolan, LianSummary:
The thinking woman's ultimate escapist adventure in Paris, told with wit, style, and a touch of intrigue, by the popular and dynamic author of The Sweeney Sisters. Joan Blakely had an unconventional childhood: the daughter of a globe-...
- Author:Johnson, DianeSummary:
American writer Tim Nolinger pursues his journalism career in Paris while proper Frenchwoman Anne-Marie plans their wedding. When Tim covers the theft of a valuable manuscript, the story leads the couple into the midst of a murder...
- Author:Karon, JanSummary:
This novel takes Father Tim Kavanaugh and his wife Cynthia to Ireland for a long-planned foray into Kavanaugh history. But while they are basking in the beauty of their surroundings, trouble comes to paradise when Cynthia surprises a...
- Author:Ronald, SusanSummary:
The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 square-foot Munich apartment, valued at around $1.35 billion....
- Author:Ponti, JamesSummary:
Get to know the only kid on the FBI Director's speed dial and several international criminals' most wanted lists all because of his Theory of All Small Things in this hilarious start to a brand-new middle grade mystery series. So you're...
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Author:Ndibe, OkeySummary:Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab driver, is desperate. Despite having a degree in economics, his strong accent has barred him from the corporate world. With gambling debt mounting, he travels back to Nigeria to steal the statue of an...
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Author:Stark, RichardSummary:This novel Firebreak takes Parker to a palatial Montana "hunting lodge" where a dot-com millionaire hides a gallery of stolen old masters, which will fetch Parker a pretty penny if his team can just get it past the mansion's tight...
- Author:Koldehoff, StefanSummary:
A thrilling, eye-popping look at true crime in the billion-dollar art world. The art world is one of the most secretive of global businesses, and the list of its crimes runs long and deep. Today, with prices in the hundreds of millions...
- Author:Hosp, DavidSummary:
In 1990, $300 million worth of paintings are stolen from a museum in Boston, and are never recovered. Twenty years later, as criminals connected with the heist begin to turn up dead, lawyer Scott Finn discovers one of his clients was...
- Author:Bennett, S. J.Summary:
At Buckingham Palace, the autumn of 2016 presages uncertain times. Yet the fallout from Brexit and a tumultuous US election prove to be the least of Queen Elizabeth II's worries when a staff member is found dead.
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