Download or read book The Thornham Copyist written by Allan Jones and published by Allan Jones. This book was released on 2019-07-21 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh Catrin Sayer Mystery. Detective Inspector Catrin Sayer of the Art and Antiques Unit, Metropolitan Police, has her life in order she thinks, before a series of setbacks affecting her personally and professionally prove her quite wrong. In the middle of the upheaval, a call from the Norfolk Police about a forged painting discovered in the Norwich Castle Museum leads her into conflict with an ‘outlaw’ biker gang in North London and eventually to the unusual artist behind a widespread series of forgeries and thefts. But outlaw bikers don’t forgive - ever. They get even.
Download or read book The Powys Deacon written by Allan Jones and published by Allan Jones. This book was released on 2016-11-12 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifth Catrin Sayer Mystery. Sayer returns to art crime investigation with a promotion to detective inspector in the ‘elite’ Art and Antiques Unit at New Scotland Yard. Her first assignment is to join a major investigation into an international art crime ring. As she begins her new role she is also hand-picked by a senior Home Office bureaucrat to look into the origin of a painting found in a village in mid-Wales, in the home of a recently-deceased judge. As she balances the competing casework assigned, a deacon at the local church in the village, Tregynon, comes into her sights. John Farrell had been open about his past life of crime and imprisonment when he was appointed at St. Deiniol’s. But is there more, unshared? Bit by bit, between events in London, Dubai and a small village in Wales, Sayer unravels the secret of the painting and the burden still carried by the Powys Deacon.
Download or read book Compline written by Allan Jones and published by Allan Jones. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body of a fifteen-year-old boy is discovered ten years after he disappeared. Dennis Lewis's remains are bound with rope in a makeshift grave in a farmer’s field near Maryport, Cumbria. Community Sergeant Harriet Calder was not involved in the original investigation, but her name is highlighted on a church bulletin found with the body. Scrawled on the same page is the word ‘Compline’. Calder, in her part-time role as a Methodist preacher, had led the service at his church the week before Dennis disappeared. Through her recall of events, she is drawn back into the Major Investigation Unit to assist the renewed investigation.
Download or read book The Falmouth Model written by Allan Jones and published by Allan Jones. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Catrin Sayer Mystery. Janis Mitchell, a second-year student at Falmouth University in Cornwall, receives a shocking image ‘hacked’ into her Facebook page, one of her being viciously assaulted at knifepoint. Janis realizes that it is probably derived from a session where she modelled for a figure-drawing class at a nearby college. Worked into the image and partially buried is a vase, but no-one understands its significance. Detective Sergeant Catrin Sayer with the Art Crime Unit at New Scotland Yard is asked to help, based on her experience as an artist rather than as a formal member of the investigation team. She is drawn further into the strange case with the appearance of a second image of the student hacked into the website of the Tate Art Gallery.
Download or read book Chalice written by Allan Jones and published by Allan Jones. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lake District Trilogy 3. A man is arrested at a house in Carlisle, Cumbria, after a witness reports an assault on a young teenage girl. The evidence is incontestable, the trial verdict a certainty. The man, Gerald Neames, turns out to be an ordained priest. Other girls also appear to be at risk, but Neames refuses to cooperate with the police. Detective Inspector Harriet Calder is seconded to the Safeguarding Unit, tasked with the identification of any other victims. Among the forensic exhibits is a small chalice bearing the fingerprint of a girl who went missing years ago.
Download or read book The Chinese Sailor written by Allan Jones and published by Allan Jones. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cruise ship officer from Hong Kong disappears during a port stop in Holyhead on the North Wales coast and a missing person investigation turns up no leads. On the same cruise, an international police operation to break an art smuggling ring loses track of three valuable Russian paintings thought to be on board. Four months later the younger sister of the missing sailor becomes a student at Bangor University, nearby. The Metropolitan Police Art Crime Unit wants to know why she is in the UK and whether it has any bearing on their case. Constable Catrin Sayer is looking for promotion and a new role away from drug squad work in Brixton. Coincidence and her Welsh background lead her to go undercover and assist the investigation. She is twenty-four at the time; keen, ambitious, trying to balance her work as a police officer with her interests as an artist, a ceramic decorator.
Download or read book The Carnforth Double written by Allan Jones and published by Allan Jones. This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fourth Catrin Sayer Mystery. Detective Sergeant Catrin Sayer of the Art Crime Unit, Metropolitan Police returns from a supposedly routine assignment in Malaysia that went disastrously wrong, to be assigned to a new case. Two years after an unsolved major art robbery from a merchant bank in London, a prisoner in Rome sends a message: he is prepared to talk about a sentencing deal for information about the bank robbery. Three paintings were stolen, two of them near-priceless canvases by the ‘horse artist’ George Stubbs. Sayer’s proposal to arrest the perpetrators is unusual; to focus on the obscure third painting stolen, a portrait of a farmer’s wife, Mrs. Rosalind Heaton of Carnforth, Lancashire.
Download or read book The Chiswick Chauffeur written by Allan Jones and published by Allan Jones. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth Catrin Sayer Mystery. Sayer returns from an extended maternity leave with the same challenge as most new mothers. She needs to rebalance her life and get back into the workforce. In her case, as a detective inspector in the Metropolitan Police, her work is the specialized world of art crime. A tip-off from an informant about a painting, a savage knife attack on a person near her home, and a police undercover operation at a casino weave together to giver her the biggest challenge of her career; a critical role in a major police operation against vicious gang operating in East London.
Download or read book The Stratford Hunter written by Allan Jones and published by Allan Jones. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sixth Catrin Sayer Mystery. Detective Inspector Catrin Sayer now leads art investigation within the prestigious Art and Antiques Unit of the London Metropolitan Police. Her team is suddenly assigned to assist Trident, the organized crime unit, at a crime scene in East London where a valuable painting has been discovered. It is a suspicious death; a young woman has fallen from the balcony of an apartment owned by a gang leader. The painting has links to a drug gang in Glasgow where, some years earlier, Sayer was part of an investigation that led to the imprisonment of its leaders. Now she is sent to Scotland to conduct interviews of the gang leader and his accountant, with instructions to ‘stir them up a bit’. She does; and it has surprising consequences.
Download or read book The Tavistock Lieutenant written by Allan Jones and published by Allan Jones. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tenth and final novel in the Catrin Sayer series. In the middle of family upheaval during the Covid pandemic, Catrin Sayer takes a career development assignment with the Devon and Cornwall Police. There, at the rank of superintendent, she chairs a reorganisation task force, a far cry from her former operational roles with the Metropolitan Police. During her contract, the violent deaths of a man and his daughter in Tavistock are linked to an art theft. Art crime being Sayer’s core expertise, she suddenly has two roles: chair of the task force and oversight of the team investigating the murders. After one perpetrator is identified and arrested, Sayer’s actions to achieve further arrests place her career as a police officer at risk.
Download or read book Canons written by Allan Jones and published by Allan Jones. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At dawn on a July morning, the body of a Roman Catholic priest, Duncan Aster, is found in the shallows of a lake in Cumbria, UK. His final email refers enigmatically to a woman called Susan and an Anglican priest from Ontario. The priest, Andrew Moore, turns out to be Aster’s last known contact. He won’t assist the police inquiry nor will he speak about the matter with his bishop. As the battleground between Bishop Azikiwe and Reverend Moore develops, Cumbria Police decide to send an officer to Canada to observe a disciplinary hearing held in Hamilton, Ontario; a court of canon law. Sergeant Harriet Calder hopes to find out the reason for Aster’s death.
Download or read book The Scottish Colourist written by Allan Jones and published by Allan Jones. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second Catrin Sayer mystery. A retired clergyman collapses in the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow, right in front of the painting by Salvador Dali called ‘Christ of Saint John of the Cross’. It is thought to be a heart attack until the angina medication he took at the onset of the attack was discovered to be a placebo; it was totally ineffective. Meanwhile, a drug 'baron' in Glasgow searches out the services of a friend of his late father, a man with prior convictions for art forgery; he has a job for him. Detective Constable Catrin Sayer is now nearly a year into her assignment with the Art Crime Unit at New Scotland Yard. The journey north to Glasgow on a new case is tied to both the death of the clergyman and a rumour of theft or fraud associated with paintings by a group of artists known as ‘The Scottish Colourists’.
Download or read book The Pinewood Gardener written by Allan Jones and published by Allan Jones. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ninth Catrin Sayer Mystery. A family in Wales are defrauded by what appears to be a Nigerian internet scam, but it tracks to an office in Lewisham, South London. DCI Catrin Sayer, Metropolitan Police, believes the case belongs to the local borough detectives, not to her specialist team in Operation Undertow. Commander Karen Moore decides otherwise. Sayer’s reluctance evaporates when a police officer is seriously injured. As the violence escalates, she is forced into a central and very personal role to bring closure to the investigation.
Download or read book The Macclesfield Psalter written by Stella Panayotova and published by Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having rested unknown for centuries in the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire, the Macclesfield Psalter is the most important medieval manuscript discovered in living memory and has captured the nation's imagination.
Download or read book In Artists Footsteps written by Lucy Wrapson and published by Archetype Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Artists' Footsteps explores the technical study and reconstruction of Old Master paintings and pigments from the medieval to the modern period.
Download or read book Ugly Feelings written by Sianne Ngai and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Envy, irritation, paranoia—in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to which these affects give rise, Sianne Ngai suggests that these minor and more politically ambiguous feelings become all the more suited for diagnosing the character of late modernity. Along with her inquiry into the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irritation, envy, and disgust, Ngai examines a racialized affect called “animatedness,” and a paradoxical synthesis of shock and boredom called “stuplimity.” She explores the politically equivocal work of these affective concepts in the cultural contexts where they seem most at stake, from academic feminist debates to the Harlem Renaissance, from late-twentieth-century American poetry to Hollywood film and network television. Through readings of Herman Melville, Nella Larsen, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Hitchcock, Gertrude Stein, Ralph Ellison, John Yau, and Bruce Andrews, among others, Ngai shows how art turns to ugly feelings as a site for interrogating its own suspended agency in the affirmative culture of a market society, where art is tolerated as essentially unthreatening. Ngai mobilizes the aesthetics of ugly feelings to investigate not only ideological and representational dilemmas in literature—with a particular focus on those inflected by gender and race—but also blind spots in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. Her work maps a major intersection of literary studies, media and cultural studies, feminist studies, and aesthetic theory.
Download or read book Hans Holbein the Younger written by Arthur Bensley Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
