Download or read book The Braque Connection Book 3 written by Estelle Ryan and published by Estelle Ryan. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forged masterpieces. Hidden messages. A desperate swan song. When world-renowned nonverbal communication expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard wakes up in an unknown location, drugged and kidnapped, it pushes the limits of her autism coping skills. For the last year, Russian philanthropist and psychopath Tomasz Kubanov has been studying Genevieve just as she and her team have been studying him. Now forged paintings and mysterious murders are surfacing around her team, with evidence pointing to one of them as the killer. Genevieve knows Kubanov is behind these senseless acts of violence. What she doesn't understand are the inconsistencies between his actions and the cryptic messages he sends. Something has triggered his unpredictable behaviour, something that might result in many more deaths, including those she cares for. Because this time, Kubanov has nothing to lose.

Download or read book The Genevieve Lenard Connections Books 1 3 written by Estelle Ryan and published by Estelle Ryan. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 1436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterful art crime. An unorthodox team. Unimaginable results. More than 1,100 pages of international art crime mysteries. Included in the box set are: The Gauguin Connection, The Dante Connection, The Braque Connection. #1 THE GAUGUIN CONNECTION Murdered artists. Masterful forgeries. Art crime at its worst. As an insurance investigator and world renowned expert in nonverbal communication, Dr Genevieve Lenard faces the daily challenge of living a successful, independent life. Particularly because she has to deal with her high functioning Autism. Nothing - not her studies, her high IQ or her astounding analytical skills - prepared her for the changes about to take place in her life. It started as a favour to help her boss' acerbic friend look into the murder of a young artist, but soon it proves to be far more complex. Forced out of her predictable routines, safe environment and limited social interaction, Genevieve is thrown into exploring the meaning of friendship, expanding her social definitions, and for the first time in her life be part of a team in a race to stop more artists from being murdered. #2 THE DANTE CONNECTION Art theft. Coded messages. A high-level threat. Despite her initial disbelief, Doctor Genevieve Lenard discovers that she is the key that connects stolen works of art, ciphers and sinister threats. Betrayed by the people who called themselves her friends, Genevieve throws herself into her insurance investigation job with autistic single-mindedness. When hacker Francine appears beaten and bloodied on her doorstep, begging for her help, Genevieve is forced to get past the hurt of her friends' abandonment and team up with them to find the perpetrators. Little does she know that it will take her on a journey through not one, but two twisted minds to discover the true target of their mysterious messages. It will take all her personal strength and knowledge as a nonverbal communications expert to overcome fears that could cost not only her life, but the lives of many others. #3 THE BRAQUE CONNECTION Forged masterpieces. Hidden messages. A desperate swan song. When world-renowned nonverbal communication expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard wakes up in an unknown location, drugged and kidnapped, it pushes the limits of her autism coping skills. For the last year, Russian philanthropist and psychopath Tomasz Kubanov has been studying Genevieve just as she and her team have been studying him. Now forged paintings and mysterious murders are surfacing around her team, with evidence pointing to one of them as the killer. Genevieve knows Kubanov is behind these senseless acts of violence. What she doesn't understand are the inconsistencies between his actions and the cryptic messages he sends. Something has triggered his unpredictable behaviour, something that might result in many more deaths, including those she cares for. Because this time, Kubanov has nothing to lose.

Download or read book The Courbet Connection Book 5 written by Estelle Ryan and published by Estelle Ryan. This book was released on 2014-07-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forged masterpieces. Kidnapped students. The dark net. Nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard's search for an international assassin is rudely interrupted by an autistic teenager who claims that forged masterpieces are being sold on the dark net--a secret internet few know exists. The resulting probe uncovers an underground marketplace offering much more sinister products and services. Including murder. An official investigation into one of her team members and the discovery of dozens of missing students across Europe adds immense pressure on Genevieve to find out if one person is masterminding these seemingly unrelated cases. What starts out as a search for illegal art sales soon turns into a desperate hunt for clues to uncover the conspiracy to destroy her team member and murder more students. Timing becomes even more crucial when someone close to her disappears and the assassin she's been looking for is the key to preventing another senseless death.

Download or read book The Pucelle Connection Book 6 written by Estelle Ryan and published by Estelle Ryan. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediaeval books. Murdered priests. Bioweapons. Renowned nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard's search for an international criminal is interrupted when her team receives an antique book. At first the book is dismissed--until they discover similar books gifted to people who are now dead. Genevieve's inner strength is put to the ultimate test when someone close to her also falls victim to the vengeful actions of an unsound mind. Barely coping with the emotional maelstrom and her doubts about her own continued involvement in the team, she looks for connections between their original case, the books and the many suspicious deaths they uncover. But the cost might be too high for Genevieve as she rushes to stop the person set on destroying as many lives as possible.

Download or read book The Flinck Connection Book 4 written by Estelle Ryan and published by Estelle Ryan. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A murdered politician. An unsolved art heist. An international conspiracy. A cryptic online message leads nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard to the body of a brutally murdered politician. Despite being ordered not to investigate, Genevieve and her team look into this vicious crime. More online messages follow, leading them down a path lined with corruption, a sadistic assassin, an oil scandal and one of the biggest heists in history--the still unsolved 1990 Boston museum art theft worth $500m. The deeper they delve, the more evidence they unearth of a conspiracy implicating someone close to them, someone they hold in high regard. With a deadline looming, Genevieve has to cope with past and present dangers, an attack on one of her team members and her own limitations if she is to expose the real threat and protect those in her inner circle.

Download or read book The L ger Connection Book 7 written by Estelle Ryan and published by Estelle Ryan. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stolen art. Rogue police officers. Drones. A video call from her dad leads top white-hat hacker Francine to four stolen masterpieces. And to a possible murder—in Brazil. Her frustration at being so far away is turned into anger when her loved ones are attacked and corrupt law enforcement officials stonewall their inquiries. Blackmail, a kidnapping and a blatant heist in their backyard in Strasbourg reveal a plan to use unregulated drone technology in a daring escape. Francine’s concern for her best friend and her parents’ safety has to take a back seat to her determination to save the lives of bystanders. Together with her team, she will do anything to stop these criminals from executing their brutal plan. If she’s not already too late.

Download or read book The Matejko Connection Book 17 written by Estelle Ryan and published by Estelle Ryan. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copied masterpieces. Mediaeval obsession. Ruthless revenge. After months of reaching frustrating dead end after dead end, Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team finally have a location for the enigmatic criminal who controls the Camorra through fear. Mondi is a vicious criminal who has taken over the Mafia drug trade in Italy, yet he's traced to an unexpected location in Central Europe. The moment they set foot in the same city as Mondi, their cybersecurity is compromised. And this is just the beginning of a relentless onslaught. They soon realise Mondi would stop at nothing to carry out the revenge he's been meticulously planning for the last two years. The more Genevieve delves into Mondi's world, the more she realises that her usual methods of solving cases are inadequate. It will take more than she knows, more than she can contribute to stop this man who has turned into a monster. The stakes have never been this high.

Download or read book The Beci Connection Book 14 written by Estelle Ryan and published by Estelle Ryan. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art restoration. A sinister collector. Internet of Things. Doctor Genevieve Lenard is woken in the middle of the night with the news that a loved one has been kidnapped and forced to steal a masterpiece. Her world-renowned nonverbal communication skills are of no worth when her autistic mind can barely handle the distress and the mystery behind the kidnapping. Genevieve uses every tool she has not only to cope, but also investigate, and soon she and her team are on their way to Croatia on a rescue mission. Amongst Roman ruins and olive groves, they learn about an imminent attack by a mysterious art collector that threatens the lives of the tourists and residents of a popular seaside city. Fast running out of time, Genevieve scrambles to find enough clues to prevent a catastrophe that could result in the loss of thousands of lives.

Download or read book The Namatjira Connection Book 16 written by Estelle Ryan and published by Estelle Ryan. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looted artworks. Italian Mafia. Deepfakes. The weekend in Italy is supposed to be a family event—a celebration as well as a break for the whole team to enjoy everything Naples has to offer. As it is, Doctor Genevieve Lenard is hard-pushed to keep an autistic shutdown at bay while surrounded by boisterous relatives and friends. When armed police interrupt the festivities to arrest a cousin for murder, relaxation becomes the last thing on her mind and staying in the moment, the foremost. A mere glimpse at the 'irrefutable' evidence is enough for Genevieve to know she and her team have their work cut out to prove the family member is being set up. When they realise they are dealing with the most brutal of mafias—the Camorra, and they uncover the clan's end goal, the stakes are suddenly extremely high. And terrifying. Never in her wildest dreams could Genevieve imagine someone planning something as deplorable as this. Something as ruthless. Something that can cause such immeasurable harm. With more questions than answers, Genevieve and her team have to find and stop this clan before thousands of people lose their lives.

Download or read book The Sirani Connection Book 13 written by Estelle Ryan and published by Estelle Ryan. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stolen masterpieces. Deadly narcotics. Artificial intelligence. A mysterious email and the arrest of a fugitive art thief send Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team to Prague, where it soon becomes apparent that this theft has a close connection to a sadistic killer they've been tracking for almost a year. No sooner do they arrive than they find a scientist tortured and murdered by Shahab Hatami--the man they've been looking for. Joining forces with Prague's elite investigator and a controversial journalist, they start uncovering the trail of terror Shahab has left behind to discover he has only just started. With Shahab developing a weapon that could kill hundreds, if not thousands of innocent people, Genevieve has to push past her autistic mind's limitations to stop him. But when those she cares for most become his target and he threatens to exact his revenge on them, Genevieve has run out of time to investigate and has to act before it's too late.

Download or read book The Malhoa Connection written by Estelle Ryan and published by Estelle Ryan. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decades-old crime. A torment not forgiven. Ice-cold revenge. When a prolific international criminal takes one of Doctor Genevieve Lenard’s friends hostage in his own flat, she is hard pushed to believe his motivation. Calling on her expertise as a nonverbal communications specialist, she sees the genuine fear and desperation behind this thief’s blustering demand to help him stop the Collector. For almost a year, the Collector has evaded Genevieve and her team, leaving behind a trail of stolen artworks, burned-down museums and blown-up galleries. And innocent victims. Grudgingly cooperating with this thief and his associates, Genevieve and her team track the Collector to the cobbled alleyways of Lisbon, Portugal, where they have only one chance to stop this merciless killer from exacting revenge that took decades to plan—an action that would have an irreversible political and economic impact on a global scale.

Download or read book The Gauguin Connection Book 1 written by Estelle Ryan and published by Estelle Ryan. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murdered artists. Masterful forgeries. Art crime at its worst. As an insurance investigator and world renowned expert in nonverbal communication, Dr Genevieve Lenard faces the daily challenge of living a successful, independent life. Particularly because she has to deal with her high functioning Autism. Nothing - not her studies, her high IQ or her astounding analytical skills - prepared her for the changes about to take place in her life. It started as a favour to help her boss' acerbic friend look into the murder of a young artist, but soon it proves to be far more complex. Forced out of her predictable routines, safe environment and limited social interaction, Genevieve is thrown into exploring the meaning of friendship, expanding her social definitions, and for the first time in her life be part of a team in a race to stop more artists from being murdered. The Gauguin Connection is an art crime novel with an autistic main character who explores the mystery of political intrigue, art heists, white collar crime, kidnapping and so much more! Enjoy this FREE book.

Download or read book Braque written by John Golding and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the catalogue for the spring 1997 exhibition at the Royal Academy in London and at the summer 1997 exhibition at the Menil Collection in Houston. The exhibition focuses on Braque's late works including the Interiors, Billiard Tables and the late Bird paintings.

Download or read book So Yesterday written by Scott Westerfeld and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wonder who was the first kid to keep a wallet on a big chunky chain, or wear way-too-big pants on purpose? What about the mythical first guy who wore his baseball cap backwards? These are the Innovators, the people on the very cusp of cool. Seventeen-year-old Hunter Braque's job is finding them for the retail market. But when a big-money client disappears, Hunter must use all his cool-hunting talents to find her. Along the way he's drawn into a web of brand-name intrigue- a missing cargo of the coolest shoes he's ever seen, ads for products that don't exist, and a shadowy group dedicated to the downfall of consumerism as we know it.

Download or read book Pedagogical Sketchbook written by Paul Klee and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of the most famous of modern art documents - a poetic primer, prepared by the artist for his Bauhaus pupils, which has deeply affected modern thinking about art . . . This little handbook leads us into the mysterious world where science and imagination fuse.' Observer

Download or read book Keeping an Eye Open written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary collection of essays on the great masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art—from the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending. “An engaging and empathetic volume.” —The New York Times Book Review As Julian Barnes notes: “Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting … But it is a rare picture that stuns, or argues, us into silence. And if one does, it is only a short time before we want to explain and understand the very silence into which we have been plunged.” This is the exact dynamic that informs his new book. In his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Barnes had a chapter on Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa, and since then he has written about many great masters of art, including Delacroix, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Cézanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Lucian Freud and Howard Hodgkin. The seventeen essays gathered here help trace the arc from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism; they are adroit, insightful and, above all, a true pleasure to read.

Download or read book Georges Braque written by Alex Danchev and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this biography, Danchev explores Braque's creativity, examines his personal and professional relationships - with Beckett, Cezanne, Giacometti, Matisse, and Miro, among others - and enriches our understanding of an extraordinary fertile period in art history. Braque emerges as a bold innovator, a revolutionary genius, and a towering figure of modern art."--BOOK JACKET.