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"A man murdered during Katrina in a hotel room two blocks from her art-restoration studio was closely tied to a part of Johanna's past that she would like kept secret. But missing from the crime scene is a valuable artwork painted in 1926 by a renowned Belgian artist that might bring it all back. An aquaintance, Clay Fontenot, who has enabled a wide variety of personal violations in his life, some of which he has enjoyed, is the scion of a powerful...
22) El atraco
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El legendario espia y restaurador de arte Gabriel Allon se encuentra en Venecia reparando un retablo de Veronese cuando recibe un llamado urgente de la policia italiana. Julian Isherwood, el excentrico comerciante de arte de Londres, se ha topado con una escalofriante escena de asesinato en el Lago Como, y ha sido detenido como sospechoso. Para salvar a su amigo, Gabriel debe localizar a los verdaderos asesinos y realizar una simple tarea: encontrar...
23) Stone cold lover
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Gargoyles volume 2
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Art restorer Felicity "Fil" Shaltis can read the magic in auras, but her fascination with a valuable statue her friend Ella Harrow asks her to locate is purely artistic. At least until the fierce stone gargoyle comes to life as a powerful, and powerfully hot, immortal warrior, who promptly saves her life from a cultist set on destroying them both. Suddenly "chiseled good looks" takes on a whole new meaning...
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This should be the cushiest job Alix London's ever had. The second Alix London mystery finds the art restorer in a world brimming with idle luxury, spectacular locations, and deadly intrigue. Surrounded by art and wealth and the sun-drenched Greek isles, she's aboard a sumptuous mega-yacht with no responsibilities save the occasional lecture to the guests of her temporary employer, Panos Papadakis, one of the world's richest men. But, there's a catch.........
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Alix London mysteries volume 3
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When art conservator Alix London spots a forgery, she knows trouble will follow. So she's understandably apprehensive when her connoisseur's eye spots something off about a multimillion-dollar Jackson Pollock painting at Palm Springs's Brethwaite Museum--her current employer. Alix is already under fire, the object of a vicious online smear campaign. Now the Brethwaite's despicable senior curator, obsessed with the "maximization of monetized eyeballs,...
26) La luz invisible
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Mientras trabaja en una iglesia antigua en Donostia, la restauradora de arte, Marta Arbide encuentra un manuscrito oculto tras un falso muro durante siglos. Se trata del diario de Jean de la Croix, un monje medieval a quien, mil años atrás, le fue encomendada una misión: llevar una misteriosa reliquia hasta un escondite seguro y huir de los sicarios que, por orden del papa Inocencio III, le perseguían para arrebatársela. Intrigada por el contenido...
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Art conservator Callie Burke's new assignment is restoring a masterpiece owned by ruthless, wealthy, and sexy politico Jack Walker. When she's persuaded to move into Jack's sprawling estate to finish the job, a mere business proposition turns into something far more complicated.
29) Widzę cię
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Gdyby dało się uchwycić przyjemność, Elena robiłaby to oczami. 29-latka, piękna i niewinna, nie wie, czym jest namiętność. Jej świat to sztuka i barwy, jak te tworzące fresk, którego restauracji podejmuje się w Wenecji, magicznym mieście, w którym przyszła na świat. Wszystko zmienia się, gdy poznaje Leonardo, międzynarodowej sławy szefa kuchni, który nagle zjawia się w jej życiu, powoduje przewrót w jej romansie z Felippo,...
30) Upadły anioł
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Gabriel Allon, as izraelskiego wywiadu, który ledwo uszedł z życiem z ostatniej operacji, a także konserwator dzieł sztuki, znajduje chwile wytchnienia w murach Watykanu, gdzie zajmuje się restauracją jednego z największych arcydzieł Caravaggia. Jednak pewnego ranka wzywa go do Bazyliki św. Piotra Monsinior Luigi Donati, wpływowy osobisty sekretarz Jego Świątobliwości papieża Pawła VII. Pod wspaniałą kopułą Michała Anioła leży...
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Alix London, the art restorer and FBI consultant renowned as the Art Whisperer, can spot a counterfeit masterpiece before the paint even dries. What she can't see is why an elite European art dealer would offer her big money for a little mirror that's no more than a homemade gift from her beloved uncle Tiny. Not that Alix would part with it at any price. But when the mirror is abruptly stolen from her home, she realizes that someone sees more in the...
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"Art restorer Natalie Rosen is a true romantic, inspired by the world's treasures--and nothing incites her passion more than the legendary St. George necklace, a lost family heirloom believed to originate from Catherine the Great. When against all odds the necklace turns up in her office before it goes to auction, Natalie takes drastic measures to keep it in the family.... Hard-living recovery agent Eric McDougal is no gentleman, but then, he's never...
34) Wielki skok
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Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon is at work in Venice repairing an altarpiece when he receives an urgent summons from the Italian police. The art dealer Julian Isherwood has stumbled upon a murder scene in Lake Como, and is being held as a suspect. To save his friend, Gabriel must perform one simple task: Find the most famous missing painting in the world.Sometimes the best way to find a stolen masterpiece is to steal another one.....
38) Yo te miro
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Si se pudiese capturar el placer, Elena lo haría con los ojos. Tiene veintinueve años, una belleza inocente y descarada y aún desconoce la pasión. Su mundo está hecho de arte y colores, los del fresco que está restaurando en Venecia, la mágica ciudad que la vio nacer. Hasta que encuentra a Leonardo, un chef de fama internacional que irrumpe en su vida y le da un vuelco a su historia de amor en ciernes con Filippo, a la idea que siempre ha tenido...
39) Angielski szpieg
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She is an iconic member of the British Royal Family, beloved for her beauty and charitable works, resented by her former husband and his mother, the Queen of England. But when a bomb explodes aboard her holiday yacht, British intelligence turns to one man to track down her killer: legendary spy and assassin Gabriel Allon. Gabriel is soon on the tail of Eamon Quinn, a master bomb maker and mercenary of death who sells his services to the highest bidder....