B.A. Shapiro Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/b-a-shapiro/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 26 Jun 2022 22:46:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg B.A. Shapiro Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/b-a-shapiro/ 32 32 38398750 Metropolis: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/06/metropolis-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/06/metropolis-a-novel/#respond Mon, 27 Jun 2022 04:50:26 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16793 A storage warehouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts hardly seems the place to play out a multi-layered suspense novel, but when Metropolis opens a body is found at the bottom of the building’s elevator shaft. As the police circle, the owners of four storage spaces disperse in an effort to keep their secrets safe. Complete strangers, they […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/06/metropolis-a-novel/feed/ 0 16793 The Collector’s Apprentice: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/10/the-collectors-apprentice-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/10/the-collectors-apprentice-a-novel/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2018 07:47:17 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11748 Before I share my thoughts on The Collector’s Apprentice, B.A. Shapiro’s new art world novel, I need to fess up that this books contains two big pieces of literary kryptonite for me. One is kind of obvious—the cover. I love the era of well-dressed, elegant women in pearls, even if I spend 95% of my days in what […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/10/the-collectors-apprentice-a-novel/feed/ 1 11748 The Art Forger https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/10/the-art-forger/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/10/the-art-forger/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:00:48 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=798 The 1990 theft of thirteen painting from the Gardner museum in Boston is still one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in the art world. Despite the seeming ineptitude of the two thieves, a massive manhunt and a $5 million reward, the works have never been recovered. B.A. Shapiro uses this theft as the background for […]

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