Read my first Lovejoy mystery this week: THE TARTAN SELL. By Jonathan Gash, the title caught my eye and I picked it up, read a few pages, and immediately got hooked.
I really enjoyed it. Lovejoy is a dealer in antiques (legal and illegal) whose method of deciding the provenance of a piece goes beyond certification. He has a nose for the real antiques.
He seems to have a knack for getting out of one scrape and into another, and, for some reason that mystified me, he also seems to have a way with the ladies, married or not. His moral code may be a little twisty but he does have some ethics. A lovable scamp is what he came across as in this book.
I intend to read some more. I hope they're all as good as this one.