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1) Alena
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"A contemporary retelling of Daphne du Maurier's gripping and iconic novel Rebecca, ALENA tells the story of a bright young curator who finds herself haunted by the legacy of her predecessor at a small, cutting-edge art museum on Cape Cod"--
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A mummified corpse, over half a century old, is found in the cellar of an abandoned building in a remote New Mexico ghost town. Junior FBI Agent Corrie Swanson needs to ID the body, and determine cause of death. When archaeologist Nora Kelly lends her expertise to the investigation, they uncover that the deceased died in a fetal position, skin coming off in sheets, a rictus of horror frozen on his face. And hidden on the corpse is a sixteenth century...
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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.
5) State fair
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2010.
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National best-selling author Earlene Fowler delivers the 14th installment in her popular Benni Harper series. Following the tradition she began in Fool's Puzzle and has continued through Tumbling Blocks, Fowler crafts a tale as enthralling as the quilting pattern she selected for the title. As Benni becomes embroiled in a new mystery, listeners can be sure she won't rest until she corrals the truth and hog-ties the culprits.
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On Central Park ; 1
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"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"--
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"Hall's writing manages to combine acute sensitivity and daring. ... Visceral and engaging. ... The emotional lives of her characters are skillfully realized in this bright weave of disparate voices–for whom art is at once a way of seeing and a way of life." —The Times (London)
The lives of four individuals—a dying painter, a blind girl, a landscape artist, and an art curator—intertwine across nearly
...9) Spider web
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2011.
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The Memory Festival is a celebration of recollections and loved ones through crafts. But when a local cop is wounded by a mysterious sharpshooter who seems to have a vendetta against the police, Benni fears for "her" loved ones, especially her police chief husband.
10) The unknown
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"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...
11) Echoes of evil
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Krewe of hunters ; 26
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English
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"Brodie McFadden is supposed to be on vacation, getting some sunshine and deciding if he wants to join his brothers and the Krewe of Hunters, a special paranormal investigation unit of the FBI. But a diving excursion with an old navy buddy to a historic shipwreck uncovers a crime scene - and the corpse is new. Museum curator Dakota "Kody" McCoy just wants her Key West culture festival to succeed. She's always had a deep connection to her home, including...
12) Grace takes off
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"A trip to Italy's Tuscan countryside is a dream come true for Grace Wheaton, curator and manager of Marshfield Manor, until her boss becomes the target of a murderer"--
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Berkley Prime Crime
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2003.
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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?
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2013.
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The new curator of a museum in Wyoming, Merry Kade hires contractor Shane Harcourt to restore the beat-up ghost town to its former glory, but when his real motives for taking the job come to light after they spend the night together, Merry must make a difficult decision.
15) The paper grail
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Howard Bartin came to Mendocino in search of a folded scrap of paper. Not just any scrap, but one bearing what might be a sketch by the legendary Japanese artist, Hoku-sai. In Northern California, nothing is what it appears, but everything is connected as Howard is led to a mysterious private war between secret, underground societies in his quest for The Paper Grail.
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"Hayley Burke's fresh start as the curator of the First Edition Society's library in Bath, England, is about to take a rotten turn in this charming new mystery series from USA Today bestselling author Marty Wingate. Hayley Burke has landed a dream job- she is the new curator of Lady Georgiana Fowling's First Edition library. The library is kept at Middlebank House, a lovely Georgian home in Bath, England. Hayley lives on the premises and works with...
19) Reliquary
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"Lieutenant D'Agosta of the New York police and anthropologist Margo Green team up with the Navy's special forces to destroy monsters roaming New York's subterranean world--sewers, tunnels--killing the homeless to eat their brains, the monsters' staple food. By the author of Relic." --
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