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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The music lesson The music lesson Katharine Weber The diary of a New York art historian as she keeps company a Vermeer painting, being held by the IRA for ransom. Alone in her lover's cottage in Ireland, Patricia Dolan admires the woman on canvas. "… OL15838553W
Still as death Still as death Sarah Stewart Taylor While tracking down a missing artifact, a piece of Egyptian funerary jewelry that has vanished from the collection of a Harvard art museum, art history professor Sweeney St. George discovers that a s… OL15856845W
Alias Olympia Alias Olympia Eunice Lipton In this stylish work of imaginative nonfiction, Eunice Lipton re-creates a provocative figure out of nineteenth-century art history, Victorine Meurent, the mysterious woman who modeled for Manet's mo… OL15864836W
Girl from the South Girl from the South Joanna Trollope Set partly in London and partly in America, this story follows the fortunes of a small group of the young and the single - the children of '60s swingers. The men can't commit, the girls can't reconci… OL17738985W
The Vermeer conspiracy The Vermeer conspiracy Eytan Halaban One semester before graduation, Danielle Caruthers, a Yale senior, takes a train to New York City and vanishes. No one has heard from her since-not her parents in gilded Westport, not her senior advi… OL21529994W
Borrower of the night Borrower of the night Elizabeth Peters A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of sixteenth century Germany, may be hidden in the medieval castle in the town of Rothenburg. The pri… OL21578079W
Have you been good? Have you been good? Vanessa Nicolson A reflective, potent memoir about difficult parents, damaging loves and a life lived at passionate extremes. OL22076036W
Silhouette in scarlet Silhouette in scarlet Elizabeth Peters One red rose, a one-way ticket to Stockholm, and a cryptic message in Latin intrigue Vicky Bliss, as they were precisely intended to do. Vicky recognises the handiwork of her former lover, jewel thie… OL24298618W
Street of the five moons Street of the five moons Elizabeth Peters Vicky Bliss, a beautiful brainy art historian, is embroiled in a mystery involving a forgery ring, meticulously produced antique jewelry and a handsome English rascal. OL24300738W
Your sad eyes and unforgettable mouth Your sad eyes and unforgettable mouth Edeet Ravel Maya and Rosie meet one day at the local dry cleaner's and their instant friendship quickly blossoms into an inseparable bond. Both are children of Holocaust survivors, but Maya refuses to become ent… OL24310145W
The Green Hour The Green Hour Frederic Tuten "In this novel, Frederic Tuten explores the ageless tension between a life of passion and a desire for ease. Set in Paris and New York, The Green Hour tells the story of Dominique, an art historian w… OL2929823W
Played Played Barbara Freethy FBI Agent J.T. McIntyre is determined to catch the thief who conned his father and destroyed his family. He wants revenge as much as justice, and he won't let anyone stand in his way-not even beautif… OL554569W
Color blind Color blind Jonathan Santlofer Two horribly mutilated corpses are the handiwork of a frighteningly deranged mind -- and they are linked by a strange painting left at each scene. Desperate, the NYPD brass turns to former cop Kate M… OL5844949W