Randall Christen

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Masterpieces and Murder (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Melissa and Turner had thought they survived Melissa's affair in Buenos Aires when she promised to make it right with her husband, but her unexpected pregnancy and sudden miscarriage sent her into a depressive state and their marriage into a dangerous downward spiral. Fast forward six month. Her new assignment working for MFAA in Berlin to help return stolen Nazi art pieces to their original owners had done wonders for her self-esteem and their marriage, but after showing up at a meeting with Heidi Fendler to make the purchase of an art related document for Melissa's employer, their world was once again turned upside down. The document they purchased detailed ten European masterpieces that had been presumed lost forever during World War II but were actually stolen by a German general as he attempted to flee Germany. Heidi and her twin sister Emma's father was in charge of guarding the paintings in Neuschwanstein Castle at the time, and after the general made off with the paintings he removed the corresponding sheet from a Nazi stolen painting log book. When he attempted to sell the sheet years later, it set the stage for his murder and his daughter's names being place on a list of loose ends that needed to be tied off by the ruthless aristocrats who were hell bent on retrieving the paintings and eliminating everyone who knew about them. Once Turner and his wife are brought into her employer's illicit transaction, they find themselves intertwined with the Fendler girls' quest to regain the custody of Heidi's daughter and escape Berlin before being crossed off the aristocrat's to do list. Turner and Melissa quickly realize that the only way to save the Fendler family is to expose the caper before the paintings disappear forever, but the three aristocrats they are jousting with have both the resources and manpower to steamroll anything between them and the paintings. Will the Fendler girls be able to secure the freedom of Heidi's daughter and escape Berlin, or will the tripartite agreement made by some of Europe's most ruthless robber-barons be consummated, allowing the dastardly trio to cash in on the paintings and continue their looting of the Post-World War II European Recovery Project's coffers?

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Autor

Randall Christen had been writing complex professional documents for decades, but once he retired in 2014 it allowed him to pursue his true passion, writing historically based mystery novels.
In his first offering, he has combined the research skills he has acquired over the past 25 years with a Creative Writing degree from Wisconsin to create a fascinating Historical Mystery novel, "The Carpenter's Chalice."
Driven by the personal need to convince audiences that the Holy Grail is the vessel that Christ drank from at the Last Supper and not Mary Magdalene, he has mined through centuries of historical information to show how the chalice could have logically moved through history from the Last Supper to London, circa 1950. In novel #2 of the Michael Turner trilogy, his main characters Turner and Melissa Pembury continue their cat and mouse game with the book sets main villain, Heinrich Himmler. With the surfacing of the Arc of the Covenant in book 2, the stakes rise to a whole new level as the pair urgently tries to penetrate the walls of the Vatican Archives in search of the Third Key, the one thing that can negate the Arc's power and determine the fate of man. Unnamed book 3,the final offering in the trilogy will be released in 2021.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Randall Christen
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798215378205
• Artikelnr.: 69971585