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Two uncorrected proofs arrived from Harper Collins which I am looking forward to reading.
A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear will be released March 17, 2015.
Spring 1937: Maisie Dobbs returns in a story of political intrigue and personal tragedy: a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gilbraltar leads the investigator into a web of lies, deceit and danger.
Am on the last few pages of a book from my own collection, bought at a library sale:
The Art Thief by Noah Charney was published September 18 2007 by Atria Books.
It's about three simultaneous art thefts - a Caravaggio altarpiece from a church in Italy, a 20th century modern masterpiece from a vault in Paris, and another modernist painting just purchased for over six million pounds from an art gallery in London.
The book is worthy of a reader who is a chess master, as the plot is a challenge to follow and to keep all the pieces in mind. Math, figures, and art history, art forgery and events are put together in a complex pattern. Nevertheless, I had a good time trying to follow along. And the humor lightens it up here and there.
Next, I have to decide - read one of my library finds or one of my own books?
Two uncorrected proofs arrived from Harper Collins which I am looking forward to reading.
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| John the Pupil |
John the Pupil by David Flusfeder is to be released March 3, 2015.
It's described as "a medieval road movie, recounting the journey taken from Oxford to Viterbo in 1267 by John and his two companions, at the behest of the friar and magus Roger Bacon, carrying a secret burden to His Holiness Clement IV. The holy trio are tried by thieves on the road and tempted by all sorts of sins – and by the sheer hell and heaven of medieval life. ‘John the Pupil’ reveals a world very different and all too like the one we live in now."
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| A Dangerous Place |
Spring 1937: Maisie Dobbs returns in a story of political intrigue and personal tragedy: a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gilbraltar leads the investigator into a web of lies, deceit and danger.
Am on the last few pages of a book from my own collection, bought at a library sale:
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| The Art Thief |
It's about three simultaneous art thefts - a Caravaggio altarpiece from a church in Italy, a 20th century modern masterpiece from a vault in Paris, and another modernist painting just purchased for over six million pounds from an art gallery in London.
The book is worthy of a reader who is a chess master, as the plot is a challenge to follow and to keep all the pieces in mind. Math, figures, and art history, art forgery and events are put together in a complex pattern. Nevertheless, I had a good time trying to follow along. And the humor lightens it up here and there.
Next, I have to decide - read one of my library finds or one of my own books?
