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10 Best Art Mystery Books Set in the World of Fine Arts!

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Get ready art buffs and mystery lovers - you're in for a treat! There's something totally riveting about a good mystery. Add a dollop of the enigmatic world of art, and you have an intoxication that's as spellbinding as a classic Monet or a chilling Vermeer. But don't fret if you're not an art connoisseur; these ten books will immerse you into the labyrinthine corridors of the art world faster than you can say 'Picasso'. They are a fusion of the mind-bending riddles you'd find in Sherlock Holmes and the dazzling allure of a gallery opening. Whether it's an inexplicable art theft, a forgery going unnoticed, or the heart-thumping hunt for a lost masterpiece, these books will keep you hooked faster than drying paint. Get ready to traverse the centuries from Renaissance to modern art, to dart from sun-dappled Parisian streets to the less traveled paths of Istanbul, all from your snug reading nook. For those who find intrigue in paint strokes and hallmarks, who adore the thrill of a good detective chase, and for those who love having their grey cells tickled, these novels are a must-read. After all, who doesn't love a good mystery, especially when it's dipped in a palette of fine art?

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『Angels and Demons』

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Robert Langdon is called upon to identify a mysterious symbol seared onto a dead man's chest. It belongs to the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood with a vendetta against the Catholic Church.

Author Dan Brown
Price unknown
Publisher Random House
Release Date Mar 01, 2013
Source Google Books
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『The Art Forger』

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“[A] highly entertaining literary thriller about fine art and foolish choices.” —Parade “[A] nimble mystery.” —The New York Times Book Review “Gripping.” —O, The Oprah Magazine Almost twenty-five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum—still the largest unsolved art theft in history—one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist. Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain with a powerful gallery owner by agreeing to forge the Degas in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But as she begins her work, she starts to suspect that this long-missing masterpiece—the very one that had been hanging at the Gardner for one hundred years—may itself be a forgery. The Art Forger is a thrilling novel about seeing—and not seeing—the secrets that lie beneath the canvas.

Author B. A. Shapiro
Price $11.99
Publisher Algonquin Books
Release Date May 21, 2013
Source Google Books
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『The Goldfinch』

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE "The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction."--Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art. As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love--and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate.

Author Donna Tartt
Price unknown
Publisher Back Bay Books
Release Date Apr 07, 2015
Source Google Books
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『The Da Vinci Code』

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#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. “Blockbuster perfection.... A gleefully erudite suspense novel.” —The New York Times “A pulse-quickening, brain-teasing adventure.” —People As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci—clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Even more startling, the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—a secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci—and he guarded a breathtaking historical secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle—while avoiding the faceless adversary who shadows their every move—the explosive, ancient truth will be lost forever.

Author Dan Brown
Price unknown
Publisher Vintage
Release Date Mar 28, 2006
Source Google Books
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『The Bernini Bust』

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British art historian Jonathan Argyll is in sunny Los Angeles conducting some profitable business with the Moresby Museum. Then the museum's owner is murdered and a Bernini bust disappears. And while awaiting the arrival of his friends from the Italian National Art Theft Squad, Jonathan finds himself targeted by the killer...

Author Iain Pears
Price unknown
Publisher Berkley
Release Date Nov 04, 2003
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『The Muralist』

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Don't miss B. A. Shapiro's new novel, The Collector's Apprentice, available now! “Vibrant and suspenseful . . . Like The Art Forger, this new story takes us into the heart of what it means to be an artist.” —The Washington Post “B. A. Shapiro captivated us in 2012 with her ‘addictive’ novel The Art Forger. Now, she’s back with another thrilling tale from the art world.” —Entertainment Weekly When Alizée Benoit, an American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her artistic patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. And, some seventy years later, not her great-niece, Danielle Abrams, who while working at Christie’s auction house uncovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind works by those now-famous Abstract Expressionist artists. Do they hold answers to the questions surrounding her missing aunt?

Author B. A. Shapiro
Price unknown
Publisher Algonquin Books
Release Date Oct 11, 2016
Source Google Books
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『The Heist』

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A fallen spy A missing masterpiece A daring mission The Heist Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon is in Venice repairing an altarpiece by Veronese when he receives an urgent summons from the Italian police. The eccentric London art dealer Julian Isherwood has stumbled upon a chilling murder scene in Lake Como, and is being held as a suspect. To save his friend, Gabriel must track down the real killers and then perform one simple task: find the most famous missing painting in the world. Sometimes the best way to find a stolen masterpiece is to steal another one. . . . The dead man is a fallen British spy with a secret: he has been trafficking in stolen artworks and selling them to a mysterious collector. Among those paintings is the world's most iconic missing masterpiece: Caravaggio's glorious Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence. Gabriel embarks on a daring gambit to recover the Caravaggio and learn the identity of the collector. His search will take him on an exhilarating hunt—from the shimmering boulevards of Paris and London to the gritty criminal underworlds of Marseilles and Corsica, and finally to a small private bank in Austria where a dangerous man stands guard over the ill-gotten wealth of a brutal dictator. At his side is a brave young woman who survived one of the worst massacres of the twentieth century. Now, with Gabriel's help, she will be given a chance to strike a blow against a dynasty that destroyed her family. Elegant, sophisticated, and entertaining, The Heist is a must-read thriller—a page-turning tale of intrigue that demonstrates once again why Daniel Silva is called a "world-class practitioner of spy fiction" (Washington Post).

Author Daniel Silva
Price unknown
Publisher Harper
Release Date Jul 15, 2014
Source Google Books
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『The Bookman's Tale』

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A mysterious portrait ignites an antiquarian bookseller’s search through time and the works of Shakespeare for his lost love. Charlie Lovett’s new book, The Lost Book of the Grail, is now available. Guaranteed to capture the hearts of everyone who truly loves books, The Bookman’s Tale is a former bookseller’s sparkling novel and a delightful exploration of one of literature’s most tantalizing mysteries with echoes of Shadow of the Wind and A.S. Byatt's Possession. Nine months after the death of his beloved wife Amanda left him shattered, Peter Byerly, a young antiquarian bookseller, relocates from North Carolina to the English countryside, hoping to outrun his grief and rediscover the joy he once took in collecting and restoring rare books. But upon opening an eighteenth-century study of Shakespeare forgeries, he discovers a Victorian watercolor of a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to Amanda. Peter becomes obsessed with learning the picture’s origins and braves a host of dangers to follow a trail of clues back across the centuries—all the way to Shakespeare’s time and a priceless literary artifact that could prove, once and for all, the truth about the Bard’s real identity.

Author Charlie Lovett
Price unknown
Publisher Penguin
Release Date May 27, 2014
Source Google Books
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『Provenance』

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"This volume of essays offers new arguments regarding the significance of the social biography of art and the transformative power of ownership. It realigns the traditional art-historical paradigm that focuses on the moment of an object's origin and instead considers the longue durée of ownership. Whereas the term provenance may call to mind little more than a list of owners or the legal questions raised by competing entitlement claims, the essays in this book demonstrate that a nuanced approach recuperates important, even dramatic, aspects of the history of art. The authors present a broad perspective on provenance, investigating examples from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and from ancient archaeology to conceptual art. They explore how stories of ownership are attached to objects, analyze important distinctions between provenance and provenience, and show how provenance can be monetized, politicized, suppressed, or otherwise instrumentalized."--Page 4 of cover.

Author Gail Feigenbaum/Inge Jackson Reist
Price unknown
Publisher Getty Publications
Release Date Jan 01, 2012
Source Google Books
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『The Raphael Affair』

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From the author of the bestselling "An Instance of the Fingerpost" comes a special trade edition of the first novel in an ingenious new Art History mystery series. When a long-lost Raphael resurfaces, it triggers a chain of events from vandalism to murder. As English art scholar Jonathan Argyll investigates, he ends up on the run for the truth and for his very life.

Author Iain Pears
Price unknown
Publisher Berkley
Release Date Feb 01, 2001
Source Google Books
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Alrighty then, there you have it, readers! A sparkling treasure chest of ten magnificent art mystery novels, all swathed in the glamorous and sometimes deviously deceptive world of fine arts. These tales will whisk you away with passionate artists, conniving collectors, enigmatic art pieces, and of course, mysterious conundrums waiting to be solved at every turn. Whether you're a seasoned art connoisseur or a rookie art enthusiast, these stories are sure to keep you engaged, your heart pounding, and your eyes sketching every detail. The pulse-pounding chases, the secrets hidden in brush strokes, the unexpected truths splashed on a canvas – it’s a captivating world, where every painting tells a story, and every sculpture hides a secret. These narratives artfully combine our love for mystery and the sublime world of art, ensuring that once you dip your toe in, there's no pulling back. So go ahead, indulge in these masterpieces, and who knows, you might end up unveiling your own love for art and mystery!

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