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The Item
By: Hendrik Hoitinga
A piece of art, lost for centuries, turns up but is subsequently stolen. Was it real, or was it a fake? Art assessor, widower Sam Price, goes in search of the truth. Take a journey with this very item, from distant past towards the present, travelling across continents and seas. Walk in the shoes of Viana Vanetti, the first owner of the item, sail the seas with Pietro, master of a three masted galleon. Meet a tin miner from Cornwall, a Peruvian youngster, a doctor and the daughter of a wealthy New Yorker. While Sam researches it’s provenance, the story jumps from the present to the past to follow the lives it has touched and he encounters four different women. Will one of these become his new love? And what secrets do his great-grandfather’s journals contain which may help find the missing artwork and solve the crimes?
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The Mosaic Swallow
By: Hendrik Hoitinga
Pilot Thomas Klaassen inherits a house with a cryptic message which sends him to help a damsel in distress. A painting won at cards in Tucson, Arizona in 1859 is stolen in Bilbao, Spain, 130 years later. Spanish gold stolen in Colombia in 1814 is found and stolen again in 1988 in Albuquerque. A beautifully crafted box painted in 1744, is auctioned in Boston nearly three centuries later. Chrissy and Tammy delve into the past, while Sophie meets a forger. There are escapes and rescues featuring horses and ships. Alison confronts someone from her past and becomes involved in the mystery of a missing criminal. Follow tales from the past, get into adventures of the present, and find out if romance flourishes in search of the painting and the gold.
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Three Monks from
Florence
By: Hendrik Hoitinga
Auction House manager Sophie receives an oil painting and delves into its history. She enlists the help of Sam and Martijn and learn about three monks and their secretive journey over four-hundred years ago. Planned by a priest in the past, in the present world clues come to light about a treasure and about others who will stop at nothing to possess it. Terri, a young museum curator, and Tammy from New York, join Sophie in a search that spreads from the Bosporus in the East to the Bay of San Francisco in the West. Their quest takes them to Florence, Italy, where they must use their combined knowledge that they have gathered to solve the ancient mystery surrounding a princess. Three keys, three clues, three locks to choose, will the riddle be solved?
Will the treasure be found?
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The Ontario Project
By: Hendrik Hoitinga
Synopsis for The Ontario Project Detective Karen Saunders is suspicious when she learns that someone is looking for Alison Hudson. As the dreaded covid virus was finally being combatted by a worldwide anti vaccine program a roller coaster of events begins. Sam and Chrissie set out from Boston in the middle of the night. Tammy from New York flies to San Francisco and Thomas and Cynthia cross the Atlantic heading for Spain. Claire continues her search for Holly and a story unfolds of a second world war secret, a letter taped to the back of an old photograph, the findings of two journalists, the involvement of a government agent and a connection with a ship that vanished in the early sixties. Find out how the past relates to the present and how a one-time enemy of Alison is involved. A daring rescue attempt, a court case, a broken romance, a dedicated museum exhibition and new love.