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Agency of the Ancient Lost & Found Series by Jane Thornley (2-6)
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Overview:Jane is the author of two multi-book series beginning with Crime by Design which begins with Warp in the Weave and finishes with the Plunge.
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
2. The Crown that Lost its Head - She was a painting by Titian; she was queen of the Holy Roman Empire, and 500 years ago an audacious sisterhood buried a secret in her name.
Lisbon 2020: a pair of forensic archaeologists discover a strange skull buried with the original occupant inside a fifteenth-century tomb. That same night, one archaeologist is murdered and the skull stolen, leaving the surviving archaeologist to dispatch a plea for help. Enter Phoebe McCabe and the Agency of the Ancient Lost and Found, now assigned to help a headless client become reunited with his skull. Yet, why would anyone steal a centuries-old cranium in the first place?
But the unfolding truth is more baffling than anyone could have imagined. The missing skull may hold the key to centuries of European intrigue, religious fanaticism, and political upheaval. As Phoebe digs, layers of royal plots emerge, along with tales of persecution and an underground resurgence of a brotherhood so virulent that it threatens the world to this very day. Yet, even in the fifteenth century, the sect had its enemies, and Phoebe needs to find the clues those long-dead allies left behind. For that, she must look in surprising places.
As she races to locate the skull she calls on instinct, intuition, art, and the help of an ancient sisterhood. Somewhere in the past lies the key to save the future and it will take every resource Phoebe possesses to pull the pieces together in time.
From the misty forests of Portugal to the castle promontories of Spain, Phoebe is pitched against a breed of fanatic it will take all her skill to beat.
3. The Florentine's Secret - Florence, Italy 1996: a young archaeologist follows a hunch that compels her to knock down a wall and retrieve a hidden sketch which may be by the renown Renaissance master Botticelli. But before she can alert the authorities and claim the find, the sketch is stolen leaving her standing in the rubble.
Three decades later, the drive for retribution brings this woman to Phoebe McCabe’s door. The sketch may have been a study for a secret portrait, she claims, and she has enough clues to point the way to its location. When the Agency of the Ancient Lost & Found joins the hunt to track down what may become the art find of the century, little do they know that they will be dragged into the crosshairs of a ruthless arms cartel as well as plunged deep into a centuries-old mystery involving key players of Renaissance Florence.
What does Lorenzo di Medici, the Bonfire of the Vanities, the artists Sandro Botticelli and Filippino Lippi have to do with a tailor’s daughter who once dared to imbed a secret into a sleeve? That’s only part of the story Phoebe must untangle. In the end, she must also grapple with remnants of her own past that not only come back to haunt her but chase at her heels with murderous intent. Either trump those monsters at their own game or perish.
The wondrous city of Florence, past and present, combined with the sweeping vistas of Tuscany wrap the reader in visions of art, rich textiles, and political intrigue while revealing the triumph of the human spirit that thrives across the centuries.
4. The Artemis Key - Phoebe McCabe repatriates a marble head of Athena to the Greek Acropolis, thinking it just another day in the life of the Agency of the Ancient Lost and Found. But others have declared her arrival in Greece to be absolutely mythic, which is only part of the problem; that Phoebe herself has an uncanny ability to locate ancient art, quite another. But she could never have guessed what these opposing forces have in mind on what she believes will be her well-earned vacation.
Now she finds herself embroiled in a stew of mystery and myth caught in the net of a secret organization that believes she can deliver them to a priceless object buried deep in the ancient past...and possibly serve them in more devious ways. Can she escape the belief system of a cult convinced that the best lives were lived three millennia ago? Reenactment turns deadly when Phoebe finds herself facing her darkest fear.
5. The Thread of the Unicorn - France, May 30, 1432: a young peasant girl is burned as a heretic after successfully leading an army into battle against the English. Two members of Charles VII’s court, an advocate and a priest, stand on the sidelines unable to intervene when their king bargains away Joan d’Arc’s life. Yet they seethe with a sense of injustice that compels them to condemn the powers that be at the risk of their own necks. And they give voice to their outrage through... art.
Nearly 700 years later, Phoebe McCabe is approached by Lilly Saint Chappelles, a Chinese-Franco actress living in the US, with an unusual request: help locate a missing tapestry which her adopted French family believe to be the seventh in the Lady and the Unicorn series. Though doubtful that such a textile could survive, Phoebe badly wants the case. It should be simple enough, she thinks.
But then all hell breaks loose. Lilly’s Chinese uncle and her twin sister are discovered working behind the scenes. It is a point of honor for Mimi Saint Chappelles, now Mimi Yu Ho, to best her sister and claim the tapestry that Uncle Tengfeng has already sold. But Phoebe, Lilly, and the Agency of the Ancient Lost & Found must locate the tapestry first, even if it means leading their adversaries right to its door.
And those adversaries are well-financed, expert in martial arts, and ruthless. They already occupy the ancient bastion that holds the tapestry when Phoebe arrives. While she races to find the hiding place and avoid being captured, clues come by way of saints and angels and even Jean herself. Intuition, historical details, and the knowledge of ancient crypts swirl in the mental tempest that hits Phoebe as she descends upon the Normandy coast.
In the end, she must track down the thread that leads to the allegorical lost unicorn and thus unravel the story of bravery, miracles, and the triumph of the human spirit against both church and state. It is the language of art, the voice of truth against power and politics, a story that must be told.
6. The Shadow of the Emperor - Cleopatra and Livia Drusilla. One was an audacious Egyptian queen and the richest woman of the known world, the other an influential Roman empress known for upholding the virtues of hearth and home. While Cleopatra ruled openly flaunting luxury and excess, Livia wielded her authority behind the scenes with strategic gravitas. The one link between them was Livia’s husband, the Roman emperor Augustus, who conquered Egypt and desired to use her fallen queen as his trophy. All of Egypt’s riches would ultimately become Rome’s except for one cache that secretly passed from Cleopatra to Livia.
Because Livia Drusilla had a plan: by involving the Vestal Virgins, the most powerful cult of priestesses in the ancient world, she would launch a plot to hide the one object of Cleopatra’s priceless treasures that she believed would ensure female sovereignty, her intent being nothing less than to ensure that a woman would someday rule the world.
Over two millennia later, enter Phoebe McCabe and the Agency of the Ancient Lost and Found. What begins as a kidnapping involving her nefarious ex soon unravels into a quest to find this potent treasure. That Phoebe must battle her own conscience as well the man who has plagued her for years is one thing, the quest to locate an ancient hoard buried by women who lived thousands of years ago quite another. Accomplishing this will mean plunging deep into history’s bleakest moments while battling natural as well as human forces and wrestling ethical dilemmas that pitch Phoebe against all in which she believes.
From London to Rome and Pompeii, Phoebe and her agency run the gauntlet of gunrunners and art thieves, their ultimate mission being to save the art of the past for all humanity instead of just the privilege few. Yet, there is always a price to pay and the question remains whether Phoebe can afford the ultimate sacrifice.
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Overview:Jane is the author of two multi-book series beginning with Crime by Design which begins with Warp in the Weave and finishes with the Plunge.
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
2. The Crown that Lost its Head - She was a painting by Titian; she was queen of the Holy Roman Empire, and 500 years ago an audacious sisterhood buried a secret in her name.
Lisbon 2020: a pair of forensic archaeologists discover a strange skull buried with the original occupant inside a fifteenth-century tomb. That same night, one archaeologist is murdered and the skull stolen, leaving the surviving archaeologist to dispatch a plea for help. Enter Phoebe McCabe and the Agency of the Ancient Lost and Found, now assigned to help a headless client become reunited with his skull. Yet, why would anyone steal a centuries-old cranium in the first place?
But the unfolding truth is more baffling than anyone could have imagined. The missing skull may hold the key to centuries of European intrigue, religious fanaticism, and political upheaval. As Phoebe digs, layers of royal plots emerge, along with tales of persecution and an underground resurgence of a brotherhood so virulent that it threatens the world to this very day. Yet, even in the fifteenth century, the sect had its enemies, and Phoebe needs to find the clues those long-dead allies left behind. For that, she must look in surprising places.
As she races to locate the skull she calls on instinct, intuition, art, and the help of an ancient sisterhood. Somewhere in the past lies the key to save the future and it will take every resource Phoebe possesses to pull the pieces together in time.
From the misty forests of Portugal to the castle promontories of Spain, Phoebe is pitched against a breed of fanatic it will take all her skill to beat.
3. The Florentine's Secret - Florence, Italy 1996: a young archaeologist follows a hunch that compels her to knock down a wall and retrieve a hidden sketch which may be by the renown Renaissance master Botticelli. But before she can alert the authorities and claim the find, the sketch is stolen leaving her standing in the rubble.
Three decades later, the drive for retribution brings this woman to Phoebe McCabe’s door. The sketch may have been a study for a secret portrait, she claims, and she has enough clues to point the way to its location. When the Agency of the Ancient Lost & Found joins the hunt to track down what may become the art find of the century, little do they know that they will be dragged into the crosshairs of a ruthless arms cartel as well as plunged deep into a centuries-old mystery involving key players of Renaissance Florence.
What does Lorenzo di Medici, the Bonfire of the Vanities, the artists Sandro Botticelli and Filippino Lippi have to do with a tailor’s daughter who once dared to imbed a secret into a sleeve? That’s only part of the story Phoebe must untangle. In the end, she must also grapple with remnants of her own past that not only come back to haunt her but chase at her heels with murderous intent. Either trump those monsters at their own game or perish.
The wondrous city of Florence, past and present, combined with the sweeping vistas of Tuscany wrap the reader in visions of art, rich textiles, and political intrigue while revealing the triumph of the human spirit that thrives across the centuries.
4. The Artemis Key - Phoebe McCabe repatriates a marble head of Athena to the Greek Acropolis, thinking it just another day in the life of the Agency of the Ancient Lost and Found. But others have declared her arrival in Greece to be absolutely mythic, which is only part of the problem; that Phoebe herself has an uncanny ability to locate ancient art, quite another. But she could never have guessed what these opposing forces have in mind on what she believes will be her well-earned vacation.
Now she finds herself embroiled in a stew of mystery and myth caught in the net of a secret organization that believes she can deliver them to a priceless object buried deep in the ancient past...and possibly serve them in more devious ways. Can she escape the belief system of a cult convinced that the best lives were lived three millennia ago? Reenactment turns deadly when Phoebe finds herself facing her darkest fear.
5. The Thread of the Unicorn - France, May 30, 1432: a young peasant girl is burned as a heretic after successfully leading an army into battle against the English. Two members of Charles VII’s court, an advocate and a priest, stand on the sidelines unable to intervene when their king bargains away Joan d’Arc’s life. Yet they seethe with a sense of injustice that compels them to condemn the powers that be at the risk of their own necks. And they give voice to their outrage through... art.
Nearly 700 years later, Phoebe McCabe is approached by Lilly Saint Chappelles, a Chinese-Franco actress living in the US, with an unusual request: help locate a missing tapestry which her adopted French family believe to be the seventh in the Lady and the Unicorn series. Though doubtful that such a textile could survive, Phoebe badly wants the case. It should be simple enough, she thinks.
But then all hell breaks loose. Lilly’s Chinese uncle and her twin sister are discovered working behind the scenes. It is a point of honor for Mimi Saint Chappelles, now Mimi Yu Ho, to best her sister and claim the tapestry that Uncle Tengfeng has already sold. But Phoebe, Lilly, and the Agency of the Ancient Lost & Found must locate the tapestry first, even if it means leading their adversaries right to its door.
And those adversaries are well-financed, expert in martial arts, and ruthless. They already occupy the ancient bastion that holds the tapestry when Phoebe arrives. While she races to find the hiding place and avoid being captured, clues come by way of saints and angels and even Jean herself. Intuition, historical details, and the knowledge of ancient crypts swirl in the mental tempest that hits Phoebe as she descends upon the Normandy coast.
In the end, she must track down the thread that leads to the allegorical lost unicorn and thus unravel the story of bravery, miracles, and the triumph of the human spirit against both church and state. It is the language of art, the voice of truth against power and politics, a story that must be told.
6. The Shadow of the Emperor - Cleopatra and Livia Drusilla. One was an audacious Egyptian queen and the richest woman of the known world, the other an influential Roman empress known for upholding the virtues of hearth and home. While Cleopatra ruled openly flaunting luxury and excess, Livia wielded her authority behind the scenes with strategic gravitas. The one link between them was Livia’s husband, the Roman emperor Augustus, who conquered Egypt and desired to use her fallen queen as his trophy. All of Egypt’s riches would ultimately become Rome’s except for one cache that secretly passed from Cleopatra to Livia.
Because Livia Drusilla had a plan: by involving the Vestal Virgins, the most powerful cult of priestesses in the ancient world, she would launch a plot to hide the one object of Cleopatra’s priceless treasures that she believed would ensure female sovereignty, her intent being nothing less than to ensure that a woman would someday rule the world.
Over two millennia later, enter Phoebe McCabe and the Agency of the Ancient Lost and Found. What begins as a kidnapping involving her nefarious ex soon unravels into a quest to find this potent treasure. That Phoebe must battle her own conscience as well the man who has plagued her for years is one thing, the quest to locate an ancient hoard buried by women who lived thousands of years ago quite another. Accomplishing this will mean plunging deep into history’s bleakest moments while battling natural as well as human forces and wrestling ethical dilemmas that pitch Phoebe against all in which she believes.
From London to Rome and Pompeii, Phoebe and her agency run the gauntlet of gunrunners and art thieves, their ultimate mission being to save the art of the past for all humanity instead of just the privilege few. Yet, there is always a price to pay and the question remains whether Phoebe can afford the ultimate sacrifice.
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2. The Crown that Lost its Head
3. The Florentine's Secret
4. The Artemis Key
6. The Shadow of the Emperor
2. The Crown that Lost its Head
3. The Florentine's Secret
4. The Artemis Key
6. The Shadow of the Emperor