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Bearer of Secrets: An Art Heist Mystery (Celine Skye Psychic Mystery Series) by Nupur Tustin
Bearer of Secrets: An Art Heist Mystery (Celine Skye Psychic Mystery Series)
Psychic Mystery
3rd in Series
Setting – Where does your book take place? Paso Robles, CA and Boston, MA
Publisher : Foiled Plots Press (June 27, 2024)
Print length : 397 pages
SIZZLING SUSPENSE: Based on the True Story of Boston’s Gardner Museum Theft!
Could a stolen Degas unravel a cold-case art heist? Celine must find out before murder closes in . . .
Shattered by a journalist’s death and sensing danger to his mother, Clara, psychic art sleuth Celine Skye struggles to focus on the Gardner Museum theft. Until a stolen Degas taken eight years after the heist surfaces—along with new clues and visions of Clara in peril.
Compelled to investigate, Celine has a startling revelation linking Clara to a Gardner Museum insider. Could Clara’s son have uncovered evidence implicating her friend in the theft?
With the threat to Clara escalating, Celine must find the truth before murder finds them both. . .
Book Excerpt
An Inconvenient Vision
Nupur Tustin
Celine Skye isn’t just a psychic art sleuth. She’s also a businesswoman: the owner of a vineyard, winery, and wine bar. But it’s hard to keep the two worlds separate, and that can make for some excruciatingly embarrassing moments. As on this particular wine tour Celine is helping to conduct in Bearer of Secrets:
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Celine stared at her fingers in dismay. They looked so white, bony, and nerveless. It will all unravel, she whispered to herself. Malice, like a hot, burning acid, flowed through her veins, consuming her being. And it serves him right.
She’d paid a horrendous price for her part in the whole affair. The cancer had sapped her of her beauty and vitality, making her all but bald.
She’d done it for him. She’d thought he loved her, that he cared.
But all he cares for is himself. Self-centered bastard.
Her long white fingers tapped out the well-remembered number.
“The Manet was supposed to be my insurance policy,” Celine heard herself rasp out. “But it’s worth absolutely nothing. You knew that, didn’t you?”
“Listen, I had no idea. I’m as flabbergasted as you are, sweetheart.”
Lies. All lies. To think she’d once loved him, fallen for that phony charm.
“My bills had better be taken care of,” she croaked. “There’ll be hell to pay if they aren’t.”
“Of course.”
Lies. All lies.
She smiled maliciously. “Don’t forget I know where the bodies are buried.”
Someone was shaking her shoulders. “What bodies, Celine? What bodies?”
Shirley’s voice rang alarmingly close to her ears, jolting Celine out of the trance she’d fallen into.
“What are you talking about, Celine?”
Feeling as though she’d been slapped into wakefulness, Celine blinked and looked around. The dark living room she’d found herself in with its stench of illness and death had dissolved. She was back in the Cab-er-Neigh tour bus with Shirley and twelve other passengers.
At the back of the bus, Beth rose. Holding onto the seats as the van’s momentum caused her to sway and bob, she made her way to the front.
“You’ve had some kind of a vision, right? What was it?”
Rattled and unnerved by what she’d experienced, Celine shook her head.
Beth’s eyes were on her, skeptical. Celine would have to offer some kind of explanation for what had happened. But what?
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About Nupur Tustin
Nupur Tustin is a former journalist who misuses a Ph.D. in Communication and an M.A. in English to paint intrigue and orchestrate murder. She is the author of the Joseph Haydn Mystery series set in eighteenth-century Austria and the Celine Skye Psychic Mysteries about a psychic art sleuth who takes on the still unsolved Gardner Museum theft of 1990. She also writes the Sophie’s Adventure series about an art sleuth who recovers stolen art as an undercover tourist. For more about her and her books, please visit https://ntustin.com
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Bearer of Secrets TOUR PARTICIPANTS
July 8 – Literary Gold – SPOTLIGHT WITH EXCERPT
July 9 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW, AUTHOR GUEST POST
July 9 – Boys’ Mom Reads! – SPOTLIGHT WITH EXCERPT
July 10 – Mystery, Thrillers, and Suspense – SPOTLIGHT
July 10 – StoreyBook Reviews – AUTHOR GUEST POST
July 11 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
July 11 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews -SPOTLIGHT
July 12 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT
July 12 – Lady Hawkeye – SPOTLIGHT
July 13 – fundinmental – SPOTLIGHT
July 13 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
July 14 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
July 15 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – SPOTLIGHT WITH EXCERPT
July 16 – Ascroft, eh? – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
July 17 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT
July 17 – Ruff Drafts – SPOTLIGHT
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Fantastic cover
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