Art Theft Mysteries
Aaron Elkins
LOOT(1999) features Boston art expert Ben Revere, a retired curator.DECEPTIVE CLARITY(1987), A GLANCING LIGHT(1991) a series featuring curator Chris Norgren, specialist in Renaissance and Baroque at the Seattle Arts Museum.
Loren D. Estleman
THE HOURS OF THE VIRGIN(1999) Detroit P.I. Amos Walker agrees to help retrieve a priceless medieval illuminated manuscript.
Jonathan Gash
THE RICH AND THE PROFANE(1998) antiques expert Lovejoy searches for a missing painting and a missing friend.
Michael Kenyon
PECKOVER JOINS THE CHOIR(1994)Chief Inspector Henry Peckover and Detective Constable Jason Twitty go undercover to investigate a series of continental art thefts.
Herbert Lieberman
THE GIRL WITH THE BOTTICELLI EYES(1996)A thriller in which Metropolitan Museum curator Michael Manship runs into trouble while trying to put together a Botticelli exhibit.
Peter Mayle
CHASING CEZANNE(1997)Art photographer Andre Kelly searches for a missing painting in some very posh locales.
Iain Pears
GIOTTO'S HAND(1994), THE LAST JUDGEMENT(1996), DEATH AND RESTORATION(1998), THE IMMACULATE DECEPTION(2000)Great series set in Italy featuring Jonathan Argyll and Flavia Di Stefano.
Elizabeth Peters
NIGHT TRAIN TO MEMPHIS(1994)Art expert Dr. Vicky Bliss searches for a thief on a cruise down the Nile.
S.J. Rozan
STONE QUARRY(1999)A famous painter asks p.i. Bill Smith to find some of her early work, which had been stolen from her studio.
Katherine Weber
THE MUSIC LESSON(1998) An historical art expert becomes involved in an IRA plot to steal a Vermeer from the Queen.
Prepared by L. Mellett -June 2001