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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...
82) The devil's eye
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Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict receives a cryptic message asking for help from celebrated writer Vicki Greene, who has been mind-wiped. She has no memory of her life, or of her plea for assistance. The answers to this mystery lie on the most remote of human worlds, where Alex uncovers a secret connected to a decades-old political upheaval.
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Precious Rafferty, an American antiques dealer living in Paris, is not one to let a man sweep her off her feet. Until she meets Bennett James. She doesn't know much about his personal or business life in Shanghai, but James appears perfect in every way. That is until a cousin sends an urgent message about Precious's new love and asks that they meet in Venice.
85) Lucky stuff
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Series
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.
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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....
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"Daniel Ahearn lives a quiet, solitary existence in a seaside New England town. Forty years ago, following a shocking act of impulsive violence on his part, his daughter, Susan, was ripped from his arms by police. Now in her forties, Susan still suffers from the trauma of a night she doesn't remember, as she struggles to feel settled, to love a man and create something that lasts. Lois, her maternal grandmother who raised her, tries to find peace...
89) Do not watch
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Sam's father runs an antique store specializing in bizarre and unique collectibles, so buying the desk of a deceased horror movie director, and finding a old video-tape labeled "The Gaunt Man, only copy, do not watch" is not a surprise--but when Sam and his friends do watch the tape, they are horrified to realize they have released the gaunt man into the world.
92) 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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Series
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
2014.
Description
"Catherine's last job ended badly. Corporate bullying at a top antiques publication saw her fired and forced to leave London, but she was determined to get her life back. A new job and a few therapists later, things look much brighter. Especially when a challenging new project presents itself: to catalogue the late M.H. Mason's wildly eccentric cache of antique dolls and [preserved animals] ... Catherine can't believe her luck when Mason's elderly...
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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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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.
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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.
99) Poison ivory
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Series
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...
100) Dead guy's stuff
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Series
Jane Wheel mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Jane Wheel is making a career out of going through old stuff. What this saloon keepers' daughter loves, though, is not the items themselves but the stories they tell about the lives of their previous owners.