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Artifice

2023
Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard to know who to trust.

The underdogs fake it till they make it

2022
Follows a group of bumbling dog detectives and their newest cat recruit as they sniff out the identity of an art forger.

Con

the life and crimes of the world's greatest art forger
A world-renowned art forger who has been duping the art world for forty-five years and served time after a widely-publicized trial, describes the secrets and corruption of that universe while giving an art history lesson.

The last Mona Lisa

a novel
2021
"August, 1911: The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens in the two years before its recovery is a mystery. Many replicas of the Mona Lisa exist, and more than one historian has wondered if the painting now in the Louvre is a fake, switched in 1911. Present day: art professor Luke Perrone digs for the truth behind his most famous ancestor: Peruggia. His search attracts an Interpol detective with something to prove and an unfamiliar but curiously helpful woman. Soon, Luke tumbles deep into the world of art and forgery, a land of obsession and danger"--Provided by publisher.

Fake

a novel
"Emma Caan is a fake. She's a forger, an artist who specializes in nineteenth-century paintings. But she isn't a criminal; her copies are commissioned by museums and ultra-wealthy collectors protecting their investments. Emma's more than mastered a Gauguin brushstroke and a van Gogh wheat field, but her work is sometimes a painful reminder of the artistic dreams she once chased for herself, when she was younger and before her family and her world fell apart. When oligarch art collector Leonard Sobetsky unexpectedly appears with an invitation, Emma sees a way out--a new job, a new path for herself, and access to the kind of money she needs to support her unstable and recently widowed mother. But every invitation incurs an obligation...and Emma isn't prepared for what's to come. As she's pulled further into Leonard's opulent scene, she will discover what's lurking beneath the glitz and glamour. When she does, the past she's worked hard to overcome will collide with the present, making her wonder how much of her carefully curated life is just as fake as her forgeries..."--From the publisher's web site.

Shadows at Jamestown

"Four hundred years ago, colonists voyaged across the Atlantic ocean to discover a new world. Today, an amazing archaeological dig at Historic Jamestown promises to uncover new secrets from those earliest English settlers. Sam, Derek, and Caitlin can't believe their luck when they are invited by Professor Evanshade to help with the archaeological digs for a week at Jamestown's Field School. Maybe they'll uncover something spectacular tracing all the way back to Captain John Smith and Pocahontas! But when one of the priceless artifacts dug from the Jamestown fort is labeled a fraud, it threatens to upend the entire archaeological project. Can the kids expose the secret conspiracy or have they finally gotten in over their heads?"--Back cover.

The multiplying mysteries of Mount Ten

When twelve-year-old painter Esther gets stuck at math camp rather than art camp, she is determined to prove herself but someone leaves cryptic messages intended to drive her away.
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The case of the counterfeit painting

When Clementine Wim spots a famous painting being carried out of the Capitol City Museum, she's astonished to find the same painting still hanging on the museum wall when she enters the building. Not even Clementine's mother, the museum's assistant curator, believes her story, so it's up to Clementine to convince everyone and right the wrong.
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El cuadro desaparecido

James "Gum" Shoo goes to the museum with his art class, and while everybody has been learning about forged art, they are surprised to find a fake in the gallery, and James and his friends attempt to solve the mystery.
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The Van Gogh deception

"When a young boy is discovered in Washington, DC's National Gallery of Art without any recollection of who he is, he must piece together the disjointed clues of his origins while using his limited knowledge to stop one of the greatest art frauds ever attempted"--Provided by publisher.
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