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    Artscape

    By Frederick Ramsay

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    With a Foreword by Frederick Ramsay

    "Ramsay nicely mixes town and gown, sophisticates and rustics, thugs and masterminds. Ike Schwartz seems destined for a bright future." —Publishers Weekly

    Ike Schwartz is the new sheriff of Picketsville, Virginia. He's also trying to shake the demons of his past, the memories of a day that went horribly wrong in Switzerland.

    Aside from its Civil War history, Picketsville's one claim to fame is Callend College—a private women's school on the edge of town. The college is most notable for housing half of the billion dollar Dillon art collection, a treasure secured in an underground bunker originally built in the 1950s as a super bomb shelter. Its alarm system is state of the art.

    But is it? Could a determined and ruthless group get away with stealing the paintings and statuary and then ransom it back for millions? The fanatics have a plan that will spell bad news for the new college president, for Sheriff Schwartz, and for a pair of college students caught in the local Lover's Lane at just the wrong moment.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateFeb 7, 2017
    ISBN9781464208553
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    Frederick Ramsay

    Frederick Ramsay was raised on the east coast and attended graduate school in Chicago. He was a writer of mysteries set in Virginia, (the Ike Schwartz Mysteries) Botswana Mystery series, Jerusalem Mystery series and stand-alones (Impulse, Judas: The Gospel of Betrayal). He was a retired Episcopal Priest, Academic, and author.

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    • 4/5
      The prestigious Dillon art collection, housed at Callend College, a private woman’s college in rural Virginia, is about to be moved in its entirety to New York City. This unexpected news forces the thieves who’ve targeted the collection to change their plans; now they’ll need to strike long before the original July 4th holiday date they’d chosen for their assault on the underground vault where the collection is secured with a state of the art security system. Despite a hitch or two in their plans . . . and a state of the art security system . . . the daring for-hire thieves manage to empty the vault and make off with the entire collection.Can Sheriff Ike Schwartz find the thieves and recover the collection? And who hired the thieves in the first place? Engaging characters and an intriguing plot help build the suspense in this likeable tale. Beneath his laid-back demeanor, Ike is decisive, tough, and capable; readers are likely to find themselves rooting for the sheriff as he matches wits with the professional thieves and the mastermind behind the crime.Recommended.
    • 4/5
      After reading the synopses to Frederick Ramsay's books, I downloaded two titles to my Kindle because they certainly sounded like the sort of books I enjoy reading. Unfortunately both titles languished there until I happened to attend an author event for his latest book featuring Ike Schwartz (Drowning Barbie). After being completely charmed by his knowledge and wit, I came home and dialed up Artscape. The mystery is a good one, and I relished the details of how the group of thieves planned to circumvent all the college security measures and steal the collection. Ramsay's writing style made for vivid mental visuals as the chapters flew by. More importantly, the characters-- in particular Sheriff Ike Schwartz, college president Dr. Ruth Harris, and a young female college student-- came to life. Plenty of sparks fly in the early scenes between Schwartz and Harris, and I liked how Schwartz dealt with Harris' razor-sharp tongue and preconceptions. Both characters are complex, and I am really looking forward to future meetings between the two. This is one series that I really want to follow, and I would recommend that you do, too, if you like well-written, fast-paced mysteries with excellent characterization.
    • 4/5
      Ike Schwartz is the sheriff of Picketsville, Virginia, and a former CIA Agent. While on his honeymoon in Paris and during a supposedly easy meet with an informant, his bride, Eloise, is killed by an un-seen shooter along with the informant. Ike leaves the CIA and flees to his hometown of Picketsville. Three years have lapsed, and Ike is working hard at not thinking about his past. Then a fortune of art is stolen from local Callend College. Throw in a murder and a double kidnapping and, for a small-town sheriff, Ike has quite the case on his hands. His romantic interest in Dr. Ruth Harris, the college president, stirs up painful memories but he perseveres. There is even a former crush, now married and wealthy and still beautiful, that openly regrets missing her chance in high school with Ike. The supporting cast to Sheriff Schwartz is interesting enough that I hope to see some of them in the sequels. The author tacks on a couple of teaser story-lines after the case is solved - a rather ham-handed ending for the book - but they bode well for future plot lines.