The Big Steal (Sterling Glass Mysteries)
At the behest of an insurance company, Sterling Glass investigates the aftermath of a museum robbery in Jenkins's intriguing second mystery to feature the antiques expert (after 2005'sStealing with Style). Located in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, Wynderly, a museum teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, was once the baronial home of Mazie and Hoyt Wyndfield, a wealthy couple who died childless. At first awed by the vast number of antiques in every room, Sterling begins to doubt the authenticity of a collection of Tang horses and suspects other items are merely replicas. As she gets to know members of Wynderly's board of directors and discovers secret rooms and diaries, Sterling unravels long-hidden deceptions. Jenkins, an antiques appraiser, is also the author of a number of nonfiction titles, includingThe Book of American TraditionsandFrom Storebought to Homemade.(July)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.