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Third Place Books is delighted to welcome back Linda Moore to our Ravenna store! Moore will be discussing her new art heist thriller, . This event is free and open to the public.
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About Five Days in Bogotá. . .
Desperate to save her gallery and her family from bankruptcy, Allison Blake travels to Bogotá to an art fair to meet wealthy collectors. She discovers paintings worth millions were added to her crates in scheme to launder money. Caught between warring cartels, U.S. mercenaries, and shady characters from her past, she fights to save her gallery and protect her children.
Gallery owner Ally Blake risks everything to exhibit at an art fair in Bogotá in the 1990s. She needs wealthy collectors to boost her gallery's sales and save her family from bankruptcy. When her art crates are tampered with and she discovers an ex-boyfriend and colleague from her State Department days in Santiago has involved her in a money laundering scheme, she devises a strategy to thwart the fraud, protect her children, and secure her family’s future—but pulling it off will require her to make the art deal of a lifetime.
Linda Moore is an author, traveler, and recovering gallery owner. Her gallery featured contemporary artists from Latin American, Spain, and the United States and she has exhibited at numerous art fairs, including in Bogotá, Buenos Aires, and Madrid. Attribution, her debut novel was an IBPA finalist in Ben Franklin Awards for General Fiction, Eric Hoffer honorable mention winner in General Fiction, on the 2022 Sarton Book Awards Short List in Contemporary Fiction, winner of Somerset Award in Literary and Contemporary Fiction and a 2022 International Book Awards Finalist in Best New Fiction, among other distinctions. She has published award-winning exhibition catalogs and her writing has appeared in art journals and anthologies. She resides with her book-collecting husband in San Diego and is working hard on her next novel in their vacation cottage on Kauai.
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Third Place Books, 6504 20th Ave NE, Seattle, United States