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The Art of Falling

The Art of Falling
  • Author(s): Danielle McLaughlin
  • Location(s): County Cork
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nessa McCormack’s marriage is coming back together again after her husband’s affair. She is excited to be in charge of a retrospective art exhibit for one of Ireland’s most beloved and enigmatic artists, the late sculptor Robert Locke. But...

The Art of Losing

The Art of Losing
  • Author(s): Alice Zeniter, Frank Wynne (Translator)
  • Location(s): Algeria, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Naïma has always known that her family came from Algeria – but up until now, that meant very little to her. Born and raised in France, her knowledge of that foreign country is limited to what she’s learned from...

The Art of Murder

The Art of Murder
  • Author(s): Carol McKee Jones
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

Murder, romance, Paris. A classic crime novel featuring betrayal and revenge set in the City of Light. Antique dealer, Liam, flees to Paris when a deal goes wrong. He meets Alouette, an ex-nightclub singer, who takes him in when...

The Art of Traveling Strangers

The Art of Traveling Strangers
  • Author(s): Zoe Disigny
  • Location(s): Italy, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

THE ART OF TRAVELING STRANGERS takes place in the 1980s and is about an art history professor named Claire who experiences a series of devastating losses, making her desperate to escape her shattered reality by taking a job as...

The Art of Vanishing

The Art of Vanishing
  • Author(s): Morgan Pager
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary and WW1

Jean’s life is the same day in and day out. Frozen in time by his painter father, the legendary Henri Matisse, Jean observes the ebb and flow of museum guests as they take in the works of his father...

The Artist

The Artist
  • Author(s): Lucy Steeds
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920

PROVENCE, 1920 Ettie moves through the remote farmhouse, silently creating the conditions that make her uncle’s artistic genius possible. Joseph, an aspiring journalist, has been invited to the house. He believes he’ll make his name by interviewing the reclusive...

The Artist Colony

The Artist Colony
  • Author(s): Joanna FitzPatrick
  • Location(s): Carmel-by-the-Sea
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

July 1924. Sarah Cunningham, a young Modernist painter, arrives in Carmel-by-the-Sea from Paris to bury her older sister, Ada Belle. En route, she is shocked to learn that Ada Belle’s suspicious death is a suicide. But why kill herself?...

The Artist’s Portrait

The Artist’s Portrait
  • Author(s): Julie Keys
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back to 20th Century

A story about art, murder, and making your place in history. Whatever it was that drew me to Muriel, it wasn’t her charm. In 1992, morning sickness drives Jane to pre-dawn walks of her neighbourhood where she meets an...

The Arts Trail Killer

The Arts Trail Killer
  • Author(s): Emylia Hall
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

(A Shell House Detectives Mystery Book 5) A killer on the loose, and a village gripped by fear. Can the Shell House Detectives save Porthpella? Springtime on the Cornish coast and Porthpella’s artistic community are throwing open their doors,...

The Ascent

The Ascent
  • Author(s): Ronald Malfi
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Having lost himself in extreme sports since the death of his wife, sculptor Tim Overleigh joins a team of men bent on climbing the Godesh Ridge in Nepal in order to stop his downward spiral, only to find what...

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