Born in Algeria in 1963, Anne-Laure Thiéblemont grew up in Madagascar, Lyon, Paris and Bogota. This childhood spent on the move left her with a taste for travel. That and her studies in art history were the two influences would shape her career. She worked as a freelance reporter for major French newspapers and magazines, specialising in art and gem trafficking. Afterwards, she spent 13 years as a magazine editor-in-chief. She lives in Marseille, France, and since 2014 has been working on her own design and applied arts magazine. Writing is her passion, her own secret garden. The Collector is her first mystery, and was inspired from her investigative reporting into art trafficking and meetings she had with famous art collectors. It’s a detective story in which the heroine’s personal story is woven into a hunt through the very secret world of Paris art galleries and auction houses. When Anne-Laure is not writing, she is out searching for gems and designing jewelry that she has made in Istanbul.

Books by Anne-Laure Thiéblemont

The Collector

written by Anne-Laure Thiéblemont, translated by Sophie Weiner - Crime, Fiction, International Intrigue, Mystery

Marion Spicer spends her days examining auction catalogues and searching for stolen works of art. She is a top-notch investigator when it comes to 18th-century art. When she inherits a huge and very prestigious collection of pre-Columbian art from a father she never knew, her troubles begin. There are conditions attached: she must first find three priceless statues. Her father’s death sparked much greed, and Marion finds herself facing sharks, schemes, fences, traps, scams and attacks. Her quest draws her into a world where people will kill for a love of beauty.