Larry Witham

Incident at Devil’s Finger, an Unmissable Crime Thriller by Larry Witham

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The Bottom Line: A wonderfully weird crime, spectacular landscapes and big-time character development make Incident at Devil’s Finger unmissable.  The third book in Larry Witham’s art-crime series opens in visually spectacular Sedona, Arizona. Having somehow secured a permit to perform a stunt among the iconic red rocks, performance artist Magnifica plans to jump from a helicopter and parachute through the Red Rock Pinnacle monuments – all in […]

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The Silk Road Affair, a Highly Recommended Heist Thriller by Larry Witham

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The Bottom Line: This high-stakes, meticulously researched international art heist caper is pure gold.  Larry Witham’s art crime expert Julian Peale is back on the case in an engrossing tale with significant geopolitical consequences. The novel opens in Vienna, as a Swiss art agent fronting a company called Silk Road Company purchases 26 paintings – including works by Degas and Monet – from a local

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The Haunted Artist, a Fascinating Art-Crime Mystery by Larry Witham

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The Bottom Line: The Haunted Artist is a taut, refreshing and fascinating work of detective fiction you can easily finish on a coast-to-coast flight.  The fourth installment of the Julian Peale Art-Crime Mystery series begins with a small town funeral for 28-year-old Sam Mason. Regarded as a rising young star in the art world, Sam had apparently sold enough paintings to pay off his mothers’ mortgage. His

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Gallery Pieces by Larry Witham

Book Review – Gallery Pieces: An Art Mystery, by Larry Witham

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The Bottom Line: A thoroughly absorbing and masterfully crafted mystery about stolen art, family and greed. After a failed sting operation to nab Russian art smugglers in SoHo, a collection of curiously marked art catalogs is discovered. Julian Peale, the budding art sleuth at the heart of Gallery Pieces, finds himself immersed in a historically significant investigation that has gone unsolved for decades. As sleuths go, author

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