Kindle Edition Amazon Radines Books Category:  Mystery/Suspense Publisher: Oak Tree Press ISBN-10:  1610092228 Type: Fiction Pages: 268 Copyright: April, 2016 ISBN-13: 9781610092227 Price: $4.99 (eBook) Carrie discovers two versions of a supposedly original portrait in a loan exhibition at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. When the reporter who interviewed Carrie at the museum disappears, Carrie must choose between her promise to stop crime-solving or work to find the woman--a college friend of her son's Using her faith and ingenuity and with capapable assistance from her husband Henry, amateur sleuth Carrie McCrite finds herself dealing with a strangely aggressive reporter and a volatile Iraqi war veteran while trying to make sense of duplicate portraits she sees in a loaned exhibition at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Tackling her biggest challenge yet, Carrie sorts through a series of confusing scenarios, only to face a man who'll do anything to protect his lucrative art fraud scheme."  Joe David Rice, Tourism Director, Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism.

Amazon Reviews
5 STARS
Another Winner
By gaylewigg on April 25, 2016
Format: Paperback Verified Purchase
Enjoyed this reunion with Carrie, her husband and friends. The description of the locale and their life is always enjoyable and off sets the suspense of the situations she somehow gets involved in. Radine writes a fun, enjoyable and interesting suspense story, as always.

5 STARS
For important works of art like those in the Port View portrait collection to be ...
By Martha A. Cheves on May 22, 2016
Format: Paperback
"Beginning around the time of the Revolutionary War, it was the practice, mainly in Europe and the British Isles, for important works of art like those in the Port View portrait collection to be copied in folios of mezzotint prints. Imported folios (large books or folders) of English portraits provided late 18th Century artists in this country with models for elegant poses and gestures that could be used by their sitters, and also with ideas for beautifully developed background scenery. Prints in the folios are normally close reproductions of the original, and Crystal Bridges' Library is fortunate to own a number of these folios. If you have time after viewing the Port View portraits, visit the library and study the books of prints on display there. One of the mezzotints you'll see is a portrait of young twins. Each child holds a bouquet of daisies. The original of that print in the gallery below is one of the Port View Historical Society's true treasures. I suggest, for fun, you study both the original portrait and the print carefully. Do you find variations between the two?"

This was part of an article written by Reporter Maylynn Brewer after her visit to the Crystal Bridges Library. Apparently she had seen a difference between the original and its copy and this article is about to cost her her life as well as her brother Mark's life. Then Maylynn disappears.

Carrie McCrite is a volunteer at the Crystal Bridges Library. She too has noticed a difference between the two pieces of art. Carrie has a tendency to get herself involved in other people's problems and this difference is piquing her interest. Henry has insisted that she not get involved. Her past involvements have come very close to costing not only her own life but his as well. But... when Henry's younger half sister Catherine becomes involved with the search for Maylynn her fiance Rob, who is Carrie's son, also joins her and of course Carrie and Henry can't allow them to play detectives by themselves.

This book picks up pace as the story goes along, especially when a Port View truck is hi-jacked. What was in the truck? Painting sales are discovered but are they sales of the real thing or copies? If they are copies, how are the buyers being convinced that they are the real thing? I found this book very enlightening as to how the art world works, but I also found it to be a very spellbound mystery.

5 STARS
Adding Humorous Twist for Amateur Detectives Creates Extra Enjoyment...
By Glenda on May 19, 2016
Format: Kindle Edition
This is my first reading of Nehring, but I'm certainly glad I found her for her cozy mystery "to Die for" series. I find I cannot always judge well about what an author might consider what is a spoiler... For instance, this author chose to say on the cover that art work may have been stolen. For me, that turned a cozy mystery into more of a whodunit...which I also enjoy reading! There is a humorous twist to the amateur investigator, in this case, Carrie McCrite, who volunteers at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Both Carrie and Henry, a former police officer, are retired and they've both gotten involved in earlier cases, which proved to be dangerous. This book begins by Henry laying down the law!

Henry went over every time she'd been in danger and the discussion was not friendly but not an angry one with Carrie one time thinking, At least he admits it's by the grace of God that I wasn't killed or even badly hurt. He must understand. He must...

So what is a woman to do? These things just keep falling into her life--it's not as if she goes out and hunts for cases. Take the incident this morning when a female jogger was being followed and ask Carrie to tell the stranger, if he asked, that she had gone another way than the one she really had taken... Well, naturally Carrie had to help, right?

And was it her fault that, in leaving the Museum later that day she accidentally heard a suspicious conversation between that same woman and another man...she couldn't be sure whether it was a different man from that morning.

Anyway, how was she to know that just by going to work, she would see that same woman coming into the Library--and she was a special guest involved with the latest display!