Art of the Heist

Prison inmates plan the ingenious heist of two Rembrandts and a Renoir worth $80 million from the National Museum in Stockholm. Authorities assemble an equally brilliant sting operation that leads all the way to Los Angeles.

Disguised as cops, two thieves remove $500 million in art from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the biggest art theft in history. The hunt for the stolen Vermeer and Rembrandts takes investigators from the shady underworld of Boston mobsters to the dangerous turf of Irish paramilitaries.

A songwriter-turned-forger joins a smooth-talking con man to rake in millions selling counterfeit paintings. As Scotland Yard zeroes in on the duo, the cops discover that the scam reaches into the inner sanctums of England’s most famous museums, threatening the legacies of the world’s greatest artists.

The Scream, painted by Edvard Munch in 1893, plumbs the depths of dread. Its theft from the National Gallery in Oslo leaves authorities equally vexed as they struggle to fathom a motive for the crime. But as the investigation unfolds, the cops discover the thieves’ offenses go far beyond art theft.

The robbery of a Cézanne still life from the rustic home of an art collector shocks residents of a sleepy New England town. But as investigators run out of clues, a revelation from an unlikely source puts the investigation into a stunning new perspective.

War-torn Cypress of the 1970s becomes a playground for treasure hunters eager to raid the country’s early churches. When an ambitious art dealer sets her sights on a mosaic of Christ as a child, she unveils a patchwork of unscrupulous art dealers, con men, and smugglers.