When times are slow in the antiques, divvies have to make ends in unusual ways. Such is Lovejoy's fate driving for Gazza Gaunt's disreputable assignation service. But when one of his customres, the beautiful Fiona, discovers his eye for the genuine article, he finds himself the toast of a rich set whose vices and interest in danger extend way beyond a casual tryst in the back of Lovejoy's van. Advising the rich on valuables is never easy, but when he discovers that this set's previous advisors have ended up in hospital or worse, Lovejoy decides to flee with horse mad Almira to France. Little does he realise that Almira is part of the plot, and that France is the centre of the biggest antiques scam in history.

Life in Japan for a transplanted Californian with a fledgling antiques business and a nonexistent love life isn't always fun, but when the flower arranging class Rei Shimura's aunt cajoles her into taking turns into a stage for murder, Rei finds plenty of excitement she's been missing.

Modigliani. Unarguably one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Modigliani's women. Those elongated, haunting figures, as eternally provocative as the Mona Lisa. And Modigliani's missing masterpiece. A priceless lost treasure - or a chillingly dangerous game?

When art dealer Jonathon Argyll agreed to transport the Death of Socrates from a gallery in Paris to its new owner in Rome, he had no idea that such a worthless, nondescript painting would cause such a stir. First, someone tries to steal it from him in a train station. Then the man he's delivering it to decides he doesn't want it - and is brutally murdered a few hours later. Now Argyll is stuck with a painting that only the most tasteless collector could love.... and he finds himself right in the middle of a murder investigation. With the bodies piling up, he must investigate the dark secrets in the painting's past - before someone with truly horrible taste decides to put him out of the picture for good....

The antiques game is nothing but trouble - beautiful, lovely trouble. And in his latest escapade, Lovejoy is in trouble up to his ears. It begins when he witnesses the murder of a fellow dealer who had recently purchased some unimportant items belonging to a local doctor recently deceased. But why were the big boys so keen to acquire these that they were prepared to kill him - and then send thugs to dispose of Lovejoy as well?

A tough, sexy adventure story which is yet credible' 'Absorbing stuff about fake and genuine antiques, archaeological hoards in Iran, red-blooded action, and well-drawn assorted villains.....Charles Hood is a durable hero'

Lovejoy is given a job by a ghost. The Other Side had instructed him to help blonde, pretty, Donna Vernon find her missing dealer husband (antiques don't die, but dealers do). A natural cynic and truth seeker, Lovejoy also knows a job is a job and East Anglia's scruffiest antique dealer needs to earn a crust. But by the time he catches up with Vernon, it's too late for pearls of wisdom......

Lovejoy always aimed to succeed in the antiques business, or die trying - and this time he almost did! Lovejoy was going through some hard times. Not only were the writ servers, several amorous ladies and the local hoodlums all after him - but some witches and a murderer had set up business in the woods. And suddenly Lovejoy had more offers of employment than any impoverished, luck-pushing antiques dealer had any right to expect - or survive.

The monastery of San Giovanni has few treasures - only a painting doubtfully attributed to Caravaggio. So Flavia di Stefano of Rome's Art Squad is surprised to receive a tip-off that a raid is being planned on the building. When the raid takes place, the thieves are disturbed and snatch the wrong painting, a curious icon of the Madonna, remarkable only for the affection in which it is held by the local population. Or is this what they wanted all along?

Essington Holt, intrepid art collector, nouveau millionaire, is intrigued when an old friend from his outback days suggests a meeting in Paris. Robert Carbentus' claim to own a Van Gogh had always fascinated Essington and he was in the mood to know more. But when Robert fails to turn up for the meeting, detained, indefinitely, by a terrorist bomb, Essington is sparked into action, and steps straight into danger.....