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2009., Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: MYS Fic Goo Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2008., William Morrow Call No: MYS Fic Low Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Protecting a river guide with ties to the art world, private information collector and reluctant bodyguard Zach Balfour realizes his charge is in more danger than previously known, a situation that pits them against the ruthless multi-million-dollar Western art circuit.
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By Reyn, Irina2016., Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press Call No: Fic Rey Edition: First Canadian Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The Imperial Wife follows the lives of two women, one in contemporary New York City and the other in eighteenth-century Russia. Tanya Kagan, a specialist in Russian art at a top New York auction house, is trying to entice Russia's wealthy oligarchs to bid on the biggest sale of her career, The Order of Saint Catherine, while making sense of the sudden and unexplained departure of her husband. As questions arise over the provenance of the Order and auction fever kicks in, Reyn takes us into the world of Catherine the Great, the infamous 18th-century woman who may have owned the priceless artifact, and who it turns out faced many of the same issues Tanya wrestles with in her own life. The Imperial Wife asks what female ambition means, today and in the past, and whether a marriage can withstand an ambitious wife"--
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c2015., Adult, Knopf Call No: Fic Rot Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Annie McMorrow, 31 and not recovered from the end of her long-term relationship, is an assistant to film producer Carlo Spinetti and then to his chilling wife Rebecca Winkleman Spinetti whose father started Winkleman Fine Art in Curzon St. Annie has spent her meagre savings on a dusty painting from a junk shop to give to her new, unsuitable, boyfriend who never shows up for his birthday dinner. The painting, now hers, talks, but only to us. Shrewd, spoiled, charming, world weary and cynical, he comments perceptively on Annie, and the modern world and tells tales about his previous owners: Louis XV, Voltaire, Catherine the Great among others. The story unfolds through this voice and many others--unexpected, entertaining, and strangely authentic. Annie will have her apartment ransacked and be pursued by dealers, buyers and an auctioneer in an attempt to get back the painting. With The Improbability of Love, Rothschild has spun a dazzling tale--both irreverant and entertainng--of a many-layered, devious world where, in the end, love triumphs."--Publisher.
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c2011., Adult, Riverhead Books Call No: MYS Fic Mos Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Leonid McGill mysteries Volume: 3Summary Note: "Third in the bestselling series featuring private investigator Leonid McGill, following KNOWN TO EVIL and THE LONG FALL. In this latest mystery, an artist with money in hand, who says she's escaped poverty via a marriage to a rich collector who keeps her on a stipend, fears for her life and asks Leonid to help. Leonid knows better than to believe every word, but this isn't a job he can afford to turn away, even as he senses that - if his family's misadventures don't kill him first - sorting out her crooked tale will bring him straight to death's door."--Publisher.
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-- Wilful behaviourBy Leon, Donna2010, c2002., Adult, Penguin/Grove Press Call No: MYS Fic Leo Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Commissario Brunetti Volume: 11Summary Note: "When one of his wife's Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it. But when the girl is found dead, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo suddenly becomes Brunetti's case, no longer Paola's student. Claudia seems to have no discernible living family - her only familial relationship is with an elderly Austrian woman, who was the lover of her grandfather, but was not herself Claudia's grandmother. Brunetti is both intrigued and stunned by the extraordinary art collection the old woman keeps in her small, unprepossessing flat, and when she in turn is found dead, the case seems to have be about to open up long buried secrets of collaboration and the exploitation of Italian Jews during the war, secrets few in Italy are happy to explore..."--Fantastic Fiction website.
