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Lädt ... Estate of Mind: A Den of Antiquity Mystery (Original 1999; 2000. Auflage)von Tamar Myers
Werk-InformationenEstate of Mind von Tamar Myers (1999)
   Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  murderbydeath | Feb 6, 2022 |    ) lollyletsgo | Aug 10, 2017 | This is a fun book. I first read it over 10 years ago, but it is just as fun now. I am definitely going to go back and reread the rest of this series. (  ) caittilynn | Jan 1, 2014 | ) ChrisWeir | Sep 16, 2013 | ) nealdowns | Dec 27, 2006 | Zeige 5 von 5 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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A Faux Van Gogh When North Carolina antique dealer Abigail Timberlake makes a bid of $150.99 on a truly awful copy of Van Gogh's The Starry Night, she's just trying to win Mama's approval by supporting the church auction. Hopefully, she'll make her money back on the beautiful gold antique frame. Little does she expect she's bought herself a fortune...and a lot of trouble. A masterpiece to kill for When her ex-boyfriend shows up and offers ten bucks for the ugly Starry Night, Abby pops the frame and is stunned to discover hidden behind the faux Van Gogh canvas a multi-million dollar lost art treasure. Suddenly she's a popular lady in her old hometown, and her first visit is from Gilbert Sweeney, her schoolyard sweetheart (according to him), who claims the family's painting was donated by mistake. But social calls quickly turn from nice to nasty as it's revealed that the mysterious masterpiece conceals a dark and deadly past and some modern-day misconduct that threatens to rock the Rock Hill social structure to its core. Someone apparently thinks the art is worth killing for, and Abby knows she better get to the bottom of the secret scandal and multiple murders before she ends up buried six feet under a starry night. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (3.48)
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I suspect there's an excellent plot here: paintings missing since WWII, art theft, white elephant sales, etc. But I can't get past the writing. It's not bad in the traditional sense: I'm sure it's well edited and I didn't see any glaring errors. But the author's style just isn't suited to me anymore (if it ever was - I do remember I quit her other series because of her style in those books). Abby "wails" when "exclaims", "blurts out", or even "shrieks" might be better choices, and unfortunately, she "wails" a lot. A lot of the banter felt forced and her choice to exaggerate some of the characters' personalities just didn't work for me.
I'm not rating this because it might be a great story for someone else; this really is just a style issue for me and I didn't stick with it long enough to really rate it.