The Mills & Morrison mysteries
And two people who would probably be
better off not working together.
Kingsley Mills knows the art and antiques trade from the inside. Detective Sergeant Marnie Morrison knows when he is lying. Together, they investigate crimes involving rare objects, questionable provenance, forgotten history and the peculiar people prepared to do almost anything to possess them.
The mysteries are serious. The people solving them are rather less reliable.
He knows where the bodies are buried. She knows how to find them.
Mills is cynical, resourceful and instinctively suspicious. Morrison is methodical, ambitious and considerably better at dealing with consequences. He improvises. She investigates. Together, they work.
Where provenance is never quite as simple as it looks.
Auction houses, museums, country estates, archives and the global art trade. Genuine masterpieces. Elaborate fakes. Long-buried secrets. And people who will go to great lengths to keep them all.
Each novel is a complete mystery. The story continues.
You can start with any book, but every case leaves its mark on Mills, Morrison and the world they inhabit.
Book one
A manuscript worth stealing.
A secret worth killing for.
A newly discovered Beethoven manuscript is stolen and a man is found dead beside the shattered display case. What begins as an art theft leads towards a two-hundred-year-old Habsburg mystery.
Discover book one
Book two
Two prints. One number.
Both genuine.
A duplicate print with the same edition number sends Mills into the peculiar economics of the Karvaly market. Meanwhile, Morrison loses the daughter of a diplomat during a protection assignment.
Discover book two
Pawnbroker, information broker and one of Mills’s oldest surviving friends.
A charming Bulgarian businessman whose interests extend well beyond art collecting.
Mills’s university contemporary and occasional source of useful information.
The art world is full of people whose loyalties are never entirely clear.
Some partnerships begin over coffee.
Mills & Morrison began with a corpse beside a Beethoven manuscript.
