Bücher von Raine Baushke

Angels and Thieves is the third book in the Andre Gensonne series.On Christmas morning, the prematurely born infant of a prominent Parisian couple disappears from the hospital hours after birth.Numb and terrified, Parisian attorney Andre Gensonne and his wife Anne desperately search for answers in the mysterious events leading to the abduction. Minutes matter.Friend and colleague, Michel la Roche, had warned Andre that winged baby angels were haunting his dreams. According to Michel, Raphael's putti had escaped from the Sistine Madonna painting with a message. Only a fool could believe that nonsense. Andre Gensonne is an art crime attorney with connections to the upper echelons of the French art world, and the last few months have been turbulent. Paris has undergone two terrorist attacks: the Charlie Hebdo shooting in January, and the November thirteenth attacks. Anything can happen, leading Andre to obsess over Anne's safety, and Michel to warn him of bad karma.And connections to the sixteenth-century painter Raphael accumulate as Andre and Michel unravel another art mystery.Will Anne and Andre's baby be found alive?

';I almost had a Caravaggio.' The raspy words Grand-pere uttered as he died were extraordinary. Who almost owns a priceless painting?From Paris through the vineyards and villages of the Loire Valley, Parisian art crime attorney Andre Gensonne finds himself searching for Saint Sebastian, a Caravaggio painting last seen in France three hundred years ago. If it still exists, where has it hidden?Andre's investigation is roiled by a series of complications including his grandfather's legacy of sixty illegal paintings, and his disquieting relationship with Anne Morgan, the woman he loves.The Forestier Furniture Company supplied hand-crafted furniture to the people of Doue-la-Fontaine, France since the 1750s. Contemporary buildings juxtaposed with ancient stone and brick structures nestle in a large tract of land among hectares of valuable vineyards. A submarine could hide there . . . along with many secrets.Now inaptly named, Forestier is a technologically innovative company with multiple divisions located in the capitols of Europe. And the last surviving Forestier has been banished from the property by his widowed stepmother.Is Saint Sebastian a secret worth killing for?