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Logan Ross yanks you inside the cutthroat world of illicit international commerce in art treasures. Annual ten billion dollars in theft, forgeries, laundering, and murder thrive among shady dealers, ruthless collectors. Is this the greatest art heist of the twenty-first century? Or is the painting only the tip of the iceberg? Logan Ross must get to the bottom of the secret government investigation, solve and avenge a high-profile murder, unravel and stop a laundering and blackmail scheme, effect the return of a world-class masterpiece, and defend himself and the museum's alluring aristocratic seductress he is falling for? But attack by local mobsters, then by heavily-armed foreign smugglers off the Maine coast threaten to end Logan's hopes and both their lives. Can our man Logan keep up with the mounting odds? Can he keep up with the museum's irresistible Lindall Winthrop; even while suspecting she may be part of the crime scheme? And when their lives depend on it, as Logan determines to turn tables on the killers, can he depend on her and can she keep up with him? This thriller takes you inside the cutthroat world of international commerce in art treasures where theft, smuggling, forgeries, deception, and greed thrive among shady dealers and ruthless collectors. As you come reeling out the back end of this book, you'll realize you've been stunningly entertained and also know a lot of good stuff you maybe didn't know before.

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New detective is smart, funny, sexy. Thriller reader When a priceless 500-year old Raphael painting turns up under questionable circumstances in the Huntington Museum, Boston-based art professor/ investigator Logan Ross is recruited to figure out who has pulled off the greatest heist of the 21st century, and discovers that someone out there is willing to do whatever it takes to shut him up. In this tightly-wrought novel of danger and suspense, author Sean Moore takes us on a nail-chomping trip into the fascinating corrupt underbelly of the art world with a wry, likeable hero, bad ass thugs, and an upper-class beauty. Masterfully written, The Raphael Conspiracy is an absolute Must Read for mystery lovers. Boston Literary Magazine Great suspense and the characters extremely vivid. I loved so many of the similes I kept finding a new favorite!!!!! The info about art and the art world itself is fascinating, authentic. Savvy, knowledge, and skill glisten on every single page! The writing is evocative, vivid, wry, clever. The characters extremely well defined, Logan is very clear, very solid. I'm really impressed. Great! phenomenal!! Newton Writing This new private eye is more educated and cultured than the usual PIs but when it comes to trading wisecracks, punches, and gunshots, he's quick as Spenser and deadly as Joe Pike. Couldn't put it down! Detective reader ...investigator that reminds one of Raymond Chandler's hard boiled private eye, Marlowe... Ross's wisecracks, jabs, and one-liners are fun to read...and plenty of danger and suspense at every turn...Sean Moore's brilliant novel The Raphael Conspiracy. Jeffrey Miller Ice Cream Headache The detective, instead of the tough exterior with the heart of gold, Logan is a suave exterior with a tough interior informed by a steel-trap mind. Sherlock Holmes with muscles Mark William Murphy Homownership

New detective is smart, funny, sexy. amazon review When a priceless 500-year old Raphael painting turns up under questionable circumstances in the Huntington Museum, Boston-based art professor/ investigator Logan Ross is recruited to figure out who has pulled off the greatest heist of the 21st century, and discovers that someone out there is willing to do whatever it takes to shut him up. In this tightly-wrought novel of danger and suspense, author Sean Moore takes us on a nail-chomping trip into the fascinating corrupt underbelly of the art world with a wry, likeable hero, bad ass thugs, and an upper-class beauty. Masterfully written, The Raphael Conspiracy is an absolute Must Read for mystery lovers. Boston Literary Magazine Great suspense and the characters extremely vivid. I loved so many of the similes I kept finding a new favorite!!!!! The info about art and the art world itself is fascinating, authentic. Savvy, knowledge, and skill glisten on every single page! The writing is evocative, vivid, wry, clever. The characters extremely well defined, Logan is very clear, very solid. I'm really impressed. Great! phenomenal!! Newton Writing This new private eye is more educated and cultured than the usual PIs but when it comes to trading wisecracks, punches, and gunshots, he's quick as Spenser and deadly as Joe Pike. Couldn't put it down! amazon review ...investigator that reminds one of Raymond Chandler's hard boiled private eye, Marlowe... Ross's wisecracks, jabs, and one-liners are fun to read...and plenty of danger and suspense at every turn...Sean Moore's brilliant novel The Raphael Conspiracy. Jeffrey Miller Ice Cream Headache The detective, instead of the tough exterior with the heart of gold, Logan is a suave exterior with a tough interior informed by a steel-trap mind. Sherlock Holmes with muscles Mark Dargon Homownership

"""New detective is smart, funny, sexy."" Thriller reader ""When a priceless 500-year old Raphael painting turns up under questionable circumstances in the Huntington Museum, Boston-based art professor/ investigator Logan Ross is recruited to figure out who has pulled off the greatest heist of the 21st century, and discovers that someone out there is willing to do whatever it takes to shut him up. In this tightly-wrought novel of danger and suspense, author Sean Moore takes us on a nail-chomping trip into the fascinating corrupt underbelly of the art world with a wry, likeable hero, bad ass thugs, and an upper-class beauty. Masterfully written, The Raphael Conspiracy is an absolute Must Read for mystery lovers."" Boston Literary Magazine ""Great suspense and the characters extremely vivid. I loved so many of the similes I kept finding a new favorite!!!!! The info about art and the art world itself is fascinating, authentic. Savvy, knowledge, and skill glisten on every single page! The writing is evocative, vivid, wry, clever. The characters extremely well defined, Logan is very clear, very solid. I'm really impressed. Great! phenomenal!! Newton Writing ""This new private eye is more educated and cultured than the usual PIs but when it comes to trading wisecracks, punches, and gunshots, he's quick as Spenser and deadly as Joe Pike. Couldn't put it down!"" Detective reader ""...investigator that reminds one of Raymond Chandler's hard boiled private eye, Marlowe... Ross's wisecracks, jabs, and one-liners are fun to read...and plenty of danger and suspense at every turn...Sean Moore's brilliant novel The Raphael Conspiracy."" Jeffrey Miller Ice Cream Headache ""The detective, instead of the tough exterior with the heart of gold, Logan is a suave exterior with a tough interior informed by a steel-trap mind. Sherlock Holmes with muscles Mark William Murphy Homownership"

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Equally at home in upscale art galleries or downmarket saloons as in the mean streets of the inner city or the halls of colleges and museums, Sean Moore pulls you through the cultural and criminal layers of his native city and along the deep cold water coast to the North of it.Sean Moore's book - The Raphael Conspiracy is a thriller about real-life crime in the art world.Sean Moore studied at Boston University School of the Arts and The University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts.He has taught at The Art Institute of Boston, The New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University, and Tufts University.His experience in the advertising/marketing world, from ad agency art director to corporate director of marketing communications, contributes depth and specific commercial know-how to his book about marketing for artists - How to Make Money as an Artist.Sean Moore is also a painter whose works have shown nationally and regionally for over forty years and hang in dozens of private and corporate collections.He has had 10 one-man shows.

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