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02023aam a22003254i 4500 001 CF33943CB88011E7886DB4FD96128E48 003 SILO 005 20171024010141 008 170424t20172017onc e 000 f eng 020 $a 177041410X 020 $a 9781770414105 035 $a (OCoLC)981118261 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c NLC $d BTCTA $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d ORX $d IH9 $d NYP $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a e-hu--- 055 0 $a PS8581 O7553 $b A66 2017 082 04 $a C813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Porter, Anna, $e author. 245 14 $a The appraisal / $c Anna Porter. 264 1 $a Toronto, Ontario, Canada : $b ECW Press, $c [2017] 300 $a 357 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a In the vein of Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie novels comes this year's smart new thriller with literary chops When wealthy octogenarian Geza Marton hires art expert Helena Marsh to buy back his family's Titian painting, Helena flies to Budapest to close what she expects will be a reasonably simple sale. But nothing is ever simple in this beautiful, flawed city where corruption abounds. Helena discovers that there are multiple bidders for the painting, including some dangerous Slavs. Soon there are also dead bodies, and a complicated history that leads her to men Marton knew in Vorkuta, one of Stalin's notorious gulags. As she works to unravel the truth of the painting's ownership and dodges her tail, the dogged ex-detective Attila Feher, Helena is forced to call on all her considerable skills to stay alive and out of jail. Smart, fast-paced, and wildly entertaining, The Appraisal is a terrific thriller set against Budapest's corruption and lost promise. 650 0 $a Art $x Collectors and collecting $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Budapest (Hungary) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Thrillers (Fiction) $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210702013115.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720050422.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20171024010640.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CF33943CB88011E7886DB4FD96128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search