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1) Ice blue
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
378 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an attempt is made on her life, museum curator Summer Hawthorne discovers that her ice-blue ceramic bowl is a priceless relic that ignites a global power struggle, trapping her in a war between the Japanese mafia and the neo-imperialists.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
On learning of a plot to rob the treasure-filled Cairo museum, Vicky Bliss, the assistant curator of the Munich National Museum, joins a Nile cruise. The object of the trip is to prevent the burglary by identifying the burglar: the wily Sir John, a master of disguise, who has been her most dangerous antagonist and her occasional lover. By the author of The Last Camel Died at Noon.
3) Hame
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
569 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
'Hame, n. Scottish form of 'home': a valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin.' In the wake of the breakdown of her relationship, Mhairi McPhail dismantles her life in New York and moves with her 9-year-old daughter, Agnes, to the remote Scottish island of Fascaray. Mhairi has been commissioned to write a biography of the late Bard of Fascaray, Grigor McWatt, a cantankerous poet with an international reputation. But who was Grigor McWatt?...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she steps into the archive of memory, deftly stitching together her dedicated study of fashion with the story of her own life lived in and through clothes. From her mother's black wedding suit to the swirling patterns of her own silk kimono, her memoir unfolds in spare, luminous prose the spellbinding power of the things we wear....
Author
Language
English
Description
London, 2010. Grieving the loss of her lover, Swinburne museum curator Catherine Gehrig is given a special project--bring back to life an automaton whose original owner, 19th century Englishman Henry Brandling, was also confronted with the mystery of life and death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Language
English
Description
On the eve of a quilt exhibition at the folk art museum in San Celina, California, one of the artists is found dead. The museum's new curator, the recently widowed Albenia Harper, sees her cousin, Rita, flee the scene and the police chief names her the prime suspect. But Albenia is sure Rita is not guilty and investigates on her own.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"With a notorious forger preying on New York's high society, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Lauren Westlake is just the expert needed to track down the criminal. As she and Detective Joe Caravello search for the truth, the closer they get to discovering the forger's identity, the more entangled they become in a web of deception and crime"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 345 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Museum curator Chloe Ellefson jumps at the chance to spend time on Wisconsin's Rock Island, a state park with no electricity or roads. Hired as a consultant for a project to restore the island's lighthouse, her research turns up fascinating tough-as-nails women from the past. Chloe's tranquillity is spoiled when a dead woman washes ashore. Is it just another accidental drowning? Or has tension over tighter fishing regulations reached a dangerous boiling...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 287 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the Agatha Award-winning Benni Harper mystery series comes a tale that will keep you at the edge of your seat. First Benni and her husband find her pick-up truck spray painted with insults. Then, while organizing a quilt show at her gallery, a bullet whizzes by only inches from her head. Could this mystery shooter have something to do with her husband's past as an undercover police officer?
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
349 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
As collections curator for Old World Wisconsin, Chloe delights in losing herself in antiques and folk traditions. When her friend's historic house is broken into, and a grisly murder takes place on the museum grounds, Chloe is drawn in to a case of plain, old-fashioned murderous greed.
12) Broken dishes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
Benni Harper is the spunky and spirited star of Earlene Fowler's LA Times best-selling mystery series. Harper is helping out a friend on a dude ranch by teaching quilting classes and lending a hand wherever needed. Things are finally coming together, that is until a dead body and Harper's nemesis Detective Ford "Hud" Hudson show up. Harper has to keep the dude ranch running, keep the guests safe, and solve the case so she can get rid of old Hud before...
13) Beyond the grave
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
236 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
14) Crocodile soup
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
350 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
17) The unknown
Author
Series
Krewe of hunters volume 35
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sienna Murray was only fourteen when she pulled her neighbors out of a raging house fire. A decade later, she still can't explain what happened that night, how she knew to save them at just the right moment--or why she receives the same mysterious warning when it happens again... New member of the Krewe of Hunters elite paranormal team Detective Ryder Stapleton doesn't believe in coincidences. So when the suspicious fire he's called to investigate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 304 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Volunteered" to take over rehearsals of a children's play for the musical director of her church, Benni Harper's entertainment career comes to a dismal end when she stumbles upon the corpse of the church handyman in front of the altar.
19) Kansas troubles
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Language
English
Description
After a whirlwind marriage to police chief Gabe Ortiz, quilter and amateur sleuth Benni Harper joins her husband on a trip to his Kansas hometown, only to become caught up in the investigation into the murder of quilter, aspiring country singer, and former Amish wife Tyler Brown.
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
325 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Trying to leave painful memories behind her, Chloe Ellefson is making a fresh start. She's the new collections curator at Old World Wisconsin, an outdoor ethnic museum showcasing 1800s settlement life.
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