Nicholas Kilmer, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (200p) ISBN 978-1-890208-80-6
This fifth novel in Kilmer's (Dirty Linen) Fred Taylor series about artists and their rarified world could, like Lazarus, use a little resurrection. It takes a potentially fascinating story and turns it into a confusing—and occasionally...
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Nicholas Kilmer, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (270p) ISBN 978-1-59058-196-4
Fans of Kilmer's quirky art mysteries will welcome the delightfully inventive sixth entry in this underappreciated series (Harmony in Flesh and Black
, etc.), a prequel that explains how art critic Fred Taylor and wealthy, reclusive Boston...
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Nicholas Kilmer, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5034-9
A cache of erotic drawings of uncertain provenance is the centerpiece of Kilmer's (Harmony in Flesh and Black) latest art world mystery. Acting for eccentric collector Clayton Reed, Fred Taylor attends a public auction of the late Lord Hanford's...
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Nicholas Kilmer, Author Henry Holt & Company $21 (261p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3663-3
First-novelist Kilmer launches a promising series with this darkly humorous story about a couple of art deals turned sour in Boston. Fred Taylor, whose job skills were picked up on clandestine operations in Southeast Asia, now assists a Boston art...
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Nicholas Kilmer, Author Henry Holt & Company $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3666-4
Fred Taylor, a Boston-based art expert who made his initial appearance in Harmony in Flesh and Black, returns to tackle another multifaceted crime. Art experts have made fine amateur sleuths--e.g., Aaron Elkin's Chris Norgren or Elizabeth Peters's...
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Nicholas Kilmer, Author Henry Holt & Company $22.5 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3930-6
What distinguishes this account of the trials and joys of fixing up an old French farmhouse from many others like it is that Kilmer didn't buy the place but inherited it; also three generations of his family spent memorable years in it and in its...
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Nicholas Kilmer, Author Henry Holt & Company $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5033-2
A brutal snowstorm that effectively shuts down Boston provides the chilling setting for Kilmer's third mystery (after Man With a Squirrel, 1996) featuring art expert Fred Taylor. Fred is asked by the police to identify a painting of the head of...
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Nicholas Kilmer. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (294p) ISBN 978-1-59058-934-2; $14.95 trade paper ISBN 978-1-59058-935-6
When Fred Taylor spies an elaborate tattoo on Cambridge, Mass., hairstylist Kim Weatherall in Kilmer's offbeat eighth art mystery (after 2010's A Butterfly in Flame), Fred thinks it's an imitation of an undiscovered work by 15th-century Dutch artist
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