Dora Conroy has a passion for antiques -- and any other rarities she can acquire for her quaint Philadelphia shop. A seasoned dealer, she knows all the tricks of the trade. But nothing could prepare her for the deadly consequences when she purchases a few curiosities at an auction -- and unknowingly brings home a priceless cache that makes her the target of an international smuggler, who will stop at nothing to reclaim his hidden riches. Entwined...

"2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it's a joke. She hasn't been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six, an event she remembers only in her nightmares. But when she arrives at Herne Hill to sort through the house--with the help of her cousin Natasha and sexy antiques dealer Nicholas--bits of memory start coming back. And then she discovers...

When village life is shattered by a series of deaths seemingly related to newcomer Leonard Mumbrary. Local antique dealer Miss Doran Fairweather and widowed vicar Rodney Chelmarsh put their heads together to find a solution.

American antique dealer Kate Hamilton's Christmastime jaunt to a charming English village leads to an investigation of a missing ruby...and a chain of murders. It's Christmastime and antiques dealer Kate Hamilton is off to visit her daughter, Christine, in the quaint English village of Long Barston. Christine and her boyfriend, Tristan, work at stately-but-crumbling Finchley Hall. Touring the Elizabethan house and grounds, Kate is intrigued by the...

"When a painting vanishes from a maritime museum and a dead body is found nearby, Freya Lockwood and her Aunt Carole--the newly established Lockwood Antique Hunter's Agency--are called to investigate. Following a lead that takes them aboard a glamorous antiques cruise sailing toward the Red Sea and Jordan, they quickly discover that the ship's art gallery is filled with stolen antiquities. Each antique is also listed in Freya's late mentor's journals...

Business is slow these days in Doran Fairweather's antique shop, until her fascination with an unsigned painting sends her on a compelling mission to prove the painting's origin.

Rodney Chelmarsh and his wife, Doran Fairweather, are overjoyed at the birth of their first child, Christopher, even though, now that Rodney has given up his vicarship, a baby will pose new financial burdens. The huge carved wood cherub, bearing an eerie likeness to Christopher, that Doran just has to have at a cost of £1200 doesn't help matters much. Rodney can't understand Doran's enchantment with it; even less can he see why other people seem...

"As the bustle of the winter holidays in the Little Shop of Found Things gives way to spring, Xanthe is left to reflect on the strange events of the past year. While she's tried to keep her time-traveling talents a secret from those close to her, she is forced to take responsibility for having inadvertently transported the dangerous Benedict Fairfax to her own time. Xanthe comes to see that she must use her skills as a spinner if she and Flora are...

"A hilarious debut novel about an eclectic group of merchants at a Kansas antique mall who become implicated in the kidnapping of a local beauty pageant star. The city of Wichita, Kansas, is wracked with panic over the abduction of toddler pageant princess Lindy Bobo. However, the dealers at The Heart of America Antique Mall are too preoccupied by their own neurotic compulsions to take much notice. Postcards, perfume bottles, Barbies, vinyl records,...

As Kate Hamilton plans her upcoming wedding to Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, she is also assisting her colleague Ivor Tweedy with a project at the Netherfield Sanatorium, which is being converted into luxury townhouses. Kate and Ivor must appraise a fifteenth-century paintingand verify that its provenance is the Dutch master Jan Van Eyck. But when retired criminal inspector Will Parker is found dead, Kate learns that the halls of the sanatorium...