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The Cavalier in White

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Frans Hals's painting The Cavalier in White disappears from a San Francisco gallery. Art security expert Joanna Stark returns from self-imposed retirement to solve the crime from a building she had made burglarproof. But art theft leads to murder, friends become strangers and the past stalks the present. Especially when Joanna's nemesis—a brilliant art thief whose ice-blue eyes haunt her dreams—becomes the most dangerous and perplexing piece in a puzzle that gets closer to home every minute.

Genre
mystery
Setting
1980s
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 220 pages

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