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Lovejoy volume 20
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Lovejoy and his Friend Gesso break into a priory and steal a rare painting, but Gesso is caught, and when Lovejoy finds evidence that suggests that Gesso has been killed, he finds himself involved in a strange case of murder, mystery, and stolen goods.
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Archaeological mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Through a quirky set of circumstances, Lara McClintoch finds herself in a partnership with her ex-husband Clive Swain. Clive has grandiose ideas, but expects everyone else to do the work to make them happen. Lara put up with Clive because her best friend is involved with him. She reluctantly agrees to his latest scheme to draw attention to their antique business starting with her acting as a tour guide to the ancient and mysterious North African country...
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Wine country quilts volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
After quitting her boring editing job, aspiring writer Lily Rosenthal isn't sure what to do next. Her only joys in life are collecting antique quilts and frequenting the area's beautiful wine country. The murder of a friend results in her inheriting the inventory of a local antique store. She begins to consider opening her own shop, even though this will mean uprooting her life. With some help from her sisters, a ghost, and a handsome baseball fan,...
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Pub. Date
c2006
Description
What do a chamber pot, a famous poet, a family feud, and a long-ago suitor all have in common? Elizabeth Barrett Browning might have written about the length and breadth of love, but Abby Randolph has given up on all that, preferring to spend her time between her cluttered "needs work" apartment and an overcrowded antiques mart optimistically named Objects of Desire. Yet Abby can't help but wonder what happened to her earlier passionate self . ....
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Wildly different half sisters Maggie, Simone, and Star have hardly seen one another since their sprightly summers at Rowan Thorp, their eccentric father Augustus’s home. Known for his bustling approach to the knick-knack shop he ran, Augustus was loved by all and known by none, not even his daughters. Now, years later, the three estranged women are called upon for the reading of Augustus’s will and quickly realize he's orchestrated a series of...
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Pub. Date
2010
Description
Antiques expert Storm Syrrell heads to Europe to investigate the clandestine trade in religious artifacts. She dismisses superstitious tales of miraculous healings and divine omens. Yet when an obsessive Russian oligarch calls-just as her friend Harry Bennett vanishes-all assumptions must be cast aside. Storm seeks answers in a medieval monastery. There, the scarred visage of an icon provokes ever more startling questions. Is she prepared to confront...
88) Lucky stuff
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Jane Wheel mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Forced to sell her house and move her antique collection after her divorce is finalized, private investigator Jane Wheel relocates to her Illinois hometown, where she investigates a washed-up comedian's activities against a backdrop of a crewman's suspicious death.
89) Poison ivory
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Den of Antiquity mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2009
Description
All antiques dealer Abigail Timberlake Washburn wanted was to find a perfect gift for her darling (if not altogether together) mama Mozella's birthday. She never expected her online purchase of an exquisite, seventeenth-century rosewood linen chest to place her in federal custody, accused of trafficking in illegal ivory! Then insult is heaped on her injury when she's forced to turn to her lawyer-snake ex, Buford, to spring her -- since ex-cop/current...
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Little shop of secrets volume 1
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"Uncle Oscar was one of a kind. His dusty antiques shop, the Green Vase--nestled in San Francisco's historic Jackson Square neighborhood--was like his own personal museum to the Gold Rush era. Needless to say, I was shocked when he was found dead in his shop, and even more surprised to discover he'd left the venerable establishment to me! I had no sooner started exploring the shop's fascinating array of curios and novelties--along with my two cats,...
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Wine country quilts volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
An incredible gift makes this the best Christmas ever for Lily Rosenthal and her three sisters as they celebrate a festive holiday season together in snowy Green Bay, Wisconsin. Will the new challenges involved in making a sampler Christmas quilt be more than red-and white quilt collector Lily Girl can handle? Intrigued by another Christmas quilt that seems beyond her reach, Lily enjoys a festive Christmas that she and her sisters will cherish forever....
94) Ruby: a novel
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Pub. Date
c2005
Description
"When antiques dealer Sadie Brennan's niece enters into a trauma-induced state of muteness, Sadie and her niece Savannah must solve the mystery of a homeless woman in Chicago named Ruby"--Provided by publisher.
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Den of Antiquity volume 13
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
It's a delightful surprise when Abigail Washburn discovers a collection of exquisite walking sticks-not so delightful when she finds a human skull!
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Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Maggie Summer arrives at a prestigious antiques fair hoping to find some treasures for her shop, but when five other antique dealers die in mysterious circumstances, Maggie begins to suspect there is something sinister going on, and she sets out to discover the truth.
100) Polaris
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Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Sixty years after the disappearance of the passengers and crew of the luxury space yacht Polaris, found empty and adrift in space, Alex Benedict sets out to uncover the truth about the Polaris and to reveal the fate of its passengers.
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