(From Amazon) Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads—and a $5 million reward—none of the paintings have been recovered. Worth as much as $500 million, the missing masterpieces have become one of the nation’s most extraordinary unsolved mysteries. Ulrich Boser, who has followed this case for decades, took […]
Same Song, Second Verse
I admit, I’ve read/listened to every book Janet Evanovich has written (even the ones from the early nineties). They are like candy after a serious novel or piece of non-fiction, and I can zip through them in a flash. I’m partial to the earlier Stephanie Plum, so I thought I’d give one of her new series a shot. Wicked Appetite, featuring the characters of Diesel and Carl the monkey from the “Plum Lovin” series introduces a cupcake maker named Lizzy, who lives in Salem, Massachusetts […]
More Than Just The Da Vinci Code
Like many in the early 2000