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Still as Death

Still as Death
By Sarah Stewart Taylor

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Art history professor Sweeney St. George is preparing an exhibit on her specialty, "the art of death," for the university museum when she makes an unusual discovery: A valuable piece of Egyptian funerary jewelry in the museum's collection is missing. Searching for answers, Sweeney learns of a young woman--a student named Karen Philips--who died of an apparent suicide soon after being the last to check out the piece more than twenty-five years ago.
 
The show must go on without the intricately beaded Egyptian collar, but Sweeney just can't let the mystery drop once she discovers that Karen was working at the museum the night it was robbed that same year. Then a murder brings the museum under the scrutiny of Cambridge, Mass. Detective Tim Quinn. Together they go after a killer, trying to resolve questions of the past…before a clear and present danger catches up with them both.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #640667 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-10-02
  • Released on: 2007-10-02
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Mass Market Paperback
  • 320 pages

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
The fourth mystery to feature art historian Sweeney St. George (after 2005's Judgment of the Grave) is every bit as riveting as the previous installments in Taylor's series. The opening of a funerary art exhibit at Boston's Hapner Museum of Art goes swimmingly, until the museum's housekeeper is found murdered—it seems she interrupted an attempted heist. The circumstances of her death recall a still unsolved theft that took the same museum by surprise more than two decades earlier. Sweeney and her detective friend, Tim Quinn, wonder if the two events are connected. Meanwhile, Sweeney herself is feeling oddly down in the dumps—she'd been planning this exhibit for three years, and she's not sure what to do with herself now. But instead of jumping at the chance to move to London with her live-in beau, she finds herself occasionally daydreaming about Quinn. Cozy fans will eagerly await Taylor's next offering.
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From Booklist
Sweeney St. George, funerary art expert and amateur sleuth, has a problem: one of the key pieces of an exhibit she's curating for a Harvard art museum has gone missing. When she tries to find it, Sweeney discovers that a student who had been researching the missing piece died under suspicious circumstances. And, as (bad) luck would have it, she, too, stumbles on the same information that got that young man killed. To save herself, Sweeney must solve a two-decades-old murder. The fourth St. George mystery displays all the wit and charm of its predecessors. Unlike some other series leads, it's not just Sweeney's name that sets her apart: in a genre full of amateur sleuths, she sparkles with originality. The series has been around long enough now to comfortably predict it'll have a nice long run. David Pitt
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Review

"Alluring…diligently plotted and layered."--The New York Times Book Review
 
"Entertains, educates, and confirms Taylor as a master of the genre."--Richmond Times-Dispatch

 "The best yet in one terrific series."--Julia Spencer-Fleming, Edgar Award finalist and author of All Mortal Flesh
 
"Riveting."--Publishers Weekly
 
"Finely plotted and smoothly written."--The Vermont Guardian (A Best Book of 2006)

 "Taylor has a good eye for chicanery and weaves a vicious web of sexual exploitation, the compulsion to own and possess, big money, illegal collections, skullduggery, and deceit that keeps the reader guessing."--Providence Journal
 "In a genre full of amateur sleuths, [Sweeney] sparkles with originality. The series has been around long enough now to comfortably predict it'll have a nice long run."-- Booklist
 
"Excellent….The combination of Sweeney's work life and emotional life, and the gift of the good mystery on top of that, make this series not to be missed.--Mystery Readers Journal