Showing results for "framed" in Literature & Fiction

Art conservator JJ Jego’s hobby is photography. When an incident involving the police unfolds on the pier she starts clicking away. Later she finds she has captured something unusual in the window of an apartment. It looks like a Vincent van Gogh—a print surely, but it's not just any Van Gogh: the original Six Sunflowers was destroyed in 1945. And that's not the only famous painting she glimpses.

Frankie James is a young man with a lot on his shoulders. His mother disappeared when he was 16, his father's in jail for armed robbery and he owes rent on his Soho snooker club to one of London's toughest gangsters. Things, you'd think, can only get better. Actually, they're about to get a whole lot worse.

It’s early spring 1948 and Lane arrives in New Denver to find that her friend, Peter Barisoff, is not at home. Instead, in a nearby meadow, she encounters Tom, an Indigenous man in search of his ancestral lands. Lane is intrigued. Unfortunately, once Peter returns home, the day takes a gloomy turn when the trio uncovers human remains next to Peter’s garden, and Lane must tell her husband, Inspector Darling, that she’s inadvertently stumbled into his professional domain—again.

Music teacher Beth and film producer Jay seem to have the perfect life together in LA. When Cassie, Beth's old best friend and college wild child, turns up unexpectedly, everything changes. But what neither of them know is what Cassie is running from. And that it's going to have consequences for them all. Something is about to go very wrong. And someone is going to lie about it.

When the historic Hopkins ferry was raised from the bottom of the lake, who would have thought they were literally raising the dead! But there it was—a skeleton—right before their eyes. Unfortunately, the evidence is slim and soggy: the boat sank in 1949, the victim on board was a woman, and near the body is a piece of unidentifiable lacelike fabric. Sounds like a job for Betsy Devonshire. Betsy knows there's more to this story than what’s on the surface.

Time Framed is a suspenseful paranormal sci-fi story about a revered American family pitted against each other in a vicious battle to determine who will be the victim of a ravaging multi-generational family curse dating back to the Mayflower. The fate and fortune of the family hangs in the balance.

Er hat ein Problem. Sie ist seine Lösung. Lilli Herzog atmet Kunst. Bis sie einen fatalen Fehler bei der Beurteilung eines eingelieferten Gemäldes macht und damit nicht nur ihrem eigenen Ruf schadet, sondern auch dem des traditionsreichen Auktionshauses ihrer Familie. Als ihr daraufhin der junge Galerist - und ihr auserkorener Erzfeind - Vincent Saint Clair eine Chance auf Wiedergutmachung bietet, ist Lilli alles andere als begeistert. Doch die exklusive Kooperation klingt zu verlockend. Lilli geht den Pakt mit dem Teufel ein und begibt sich mit ihm auf die Suche nach einer verschollenen Bildhauerin.

In which the unfashionably top-heavy Miss Fortnum visits the Big Apple, dabbles in the world of contemporary art, and belatedly discovers the strange and fascinating world of manual relief. Lesley Finch's third Felicity Fortnum novella takes the titular heroine away from her comfort zone in roaring-20s London across the Atlantic, to visit her artistic friend Spurgeon "Spunky" Spunkmeyer. As ever, the redoubtable family valet Jennings is never far from his mistress's side, or, indeed, front. Posey Clifford returns to narrate this treat for lovers of breasts and silliness.

Bookish people discuss films set in the literary world.

Love is in the air for Jordan and Sam. Several surprises are in store and an added spice of suspense and intrigue. Bravery is Sam's middle name. New characters are added to the mix, and a blast from the past comes Sam's way. Jordan is worried she has made a big mistake involving Sam that could affect their relationship.