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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1977
  • Latest Book:
    August 2016
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Full Series List in Order

A Dr. Clare Burtonall Mystery

1 - Different Women Dancing (1997)
2 - Prey Dancing (Aug-1998)

A Lovejoy Novel of Suspense

1 - The Judas Pair (Nov-1977)
2 - Gold by Gemini (1978)
3 - Grail Tree (Jun-1980)
4 - Spend Game (May-1982)
5 - The Vatican Rip (Mar-1999)
6 - Firefly Gadroon (Sep-1984)
7 - The Sleepers of Erin (May-1983)
8 - The Gondola Scam (Mar-1984)
9 - Pearlhanger (May-1985)
10 - The Tartan Sell (Dec-1998)
11 - Moonspender (Jan-1987)
12 - Jade Woman (Jan-1989)
13 - The Very Last Gambado (Sep-1990)
14 - The Great California Game (Sep-1991)
15 - The Lies of Fair Ladies (Aug-1992)
16 - Paid and Loving Eyes (Jul-1993)
17 - The Sin Within Her Smile (Jun-1994)
18 - The Grace in Older Women (May-1995)
19 - The Possessions of a Lady (Aug-1996)
20 - The Rich and the Profane (Mar-1999)
21 - A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair (Mar-2000)
22 - The Ten Word Game (Jan-2004)
23 - The Faces in the Pool (Dec-2009)

Book List in Order: 31 titles



  • Lovejoy knows that the legendary Judas Pair of flintlock pistols are just that--a legend. Or are they? By the time he finds out the truth, two people are dead, and Lovejoy has to pull a nifty scam to avoid the same fate. First in the Lovejoy series....



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    The British-Roman coins had been around for centuries, so when they disappear from a local museum, Lovejoy has a more than passing interest in finding them. Abandoning his usual pursuits of "good buys" and willing women, Lovejoy finds himself in the ...



  • When you have the most valuable antique known to man, you naturally want the best person to authenticate it. That's why the Reverend Swan, proud possessor of the Holy Grail, called Lovejoy. But murder interrupts Lovejoy's professional mission and se...





  • A Lovejoy novel. Whilst wondering why certain dealers are bidding themselves into poverty for a fake painting, Lovejoy is invited to check whether antiques being secretly lifted from Venice are genuine. The offer is too good to refuse, but it involve...




  • Agreeing to find Donna Vernon's missing antiques dealer husband only because he's broke, Lovejoy, an expert divvie, finds himself in the way of numerous antique bargains until Sidney Vernon is found murdered and Lovejoy is the police's prime suspect...



  • Lovejoy doesn't mind an occasional take, but the wholesale theft of national treasures is something else. So when "moonspenders"--antiques poachers with hi-tech metal detectors--start digging up his native East Anglia's ancient treasures, Lovejoy tak...






  • Lovejoy, connoisseur of valuable antiques and beautiful women, is on the run, fleeing both the law and the lawless in England. Traveling to Hong Kong seems a wise move, and soon Lovejoy is settled in there, checking out antiques and making good use o...



  • Lovejoy returns to East Anglia towork as an antique consultant for a movie about a museum robbery. But soon, Lovejoy becomes the center of a vicious web of theft, murder and disappearances and must use all his wits tocome out live....



  • Persona non grata in England and Hong Kong, antiques expert Lovejoy escapes to America, where he must rely on the help of a destitute hooker and a streetwise eight year old to stay one step ahead of the law. Reprint....




  • Lovejoy enters the illicit world of underground antiques when he is summoned by a shady underworld figure to judge a competition involving an antique vase. His verdict, however, sets off a chain of suspicious happenings in the antiques community--inc...



  • This time, Lovejoy's on the auction block When Lovejoy himself is put on the block among marmalades and lawnmowers at a charity auction -- and billed as "Slave for a Day" -- he's bought for an outrageous sum by a rich and luscious mystery lady...



  • Investigating the murder of his friend, Tryer, Lovejoy teams up with Tryer's girlfriend and a pair of wizened spinsters to discover how the torching of Tryer's mobile "Sex Museum" is linked to the dying village of Fenstone. Reprint....



  • High-stakes antiques dealer Lovejoy is coming off an unsuccessful liaison with a rich fashion-plate when he finds himself choosing between helping a friend find a missing teenage girl, or exploring a mysterious invitation found in a borrowed tuxedo. ...



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    SPARKS FLY WHEN THE BRILLIANT AND BEAUTIFUL DR. CLARE BURONALL FORMAS AN UNUSUAL PARTNERSHIP WITH A SUNSUAL MAN OF THE NIGHT NAMED BONN Heading home from the hospital, Dr. Clare Burtonall comes upon a fatal traffic accident. Eager to help, she arr...



  • While working the late shift in a London hospital, doctor and sometimes detective Clare Burtonall hears the deathbed plea of a young woman--"forgive"--and sets out into the city's underworld to deliver the message to the woman's boyfriend. Reprint....






  • After waiting for the delivery of a bureau which never arrives, Lovejoy discovers that the driver has been murdered and the bureau, which had come from Shona McGunn in Scotland, has disappeared and he sets out for Scotland, changing his name to Ian M...



  • A new mystery for Lovejoy Antiques, Inc., involves the somewhat nefarious Lovejoy in a plot to rob the treasure of Albansham priory, which leads to a chase to the Channel Islands and a number of sudden disappearances and close calls. Reprint....



  • Lovejoy goes to Rome to steal an antique table ... from the Pope! Lovejoy, that witty rogue with a genius for antiques, is asked to recover a family heirloom. Unfortunately, the Chippendale table in question now sits in the Vatican. Though matters...



  • Lovejoy's foray into the antiques markets of London turns into an unexpected -- and dangerous -- family reunion In between the markets of Camden and Portobello, Lovejoy pays a visit to his old friends Colette and Arthur Goldhorn, but he's in f...



  • A mystery in the long-running series featuring the well-known antiques "divvy" and general bad boy, Lovejoy.Lovejoy cannot be said to have clean hands and a pure heart, flitting bee-like as he does from one flower of womanhood to the next, and strain...



  • KwayFay was once a "Cockroach Child", a homeless scavenger on Hong Kong's waterfronts. Now grown, she lives in a squatter shack on the mountain slopes, and commutes each day to her job as a lowly office clerk. She survives by paying bribes if she has...



  • Lovejoy is released from jail on condition he join the elegant Laura Moon's speed-dating agency. A divorced millionairess, Lauraa proposes a temporary marriage of convenience to help her hunt down her former husband. Can Lovejoy do what is expected o...



  • The victim, and two other antiques dealers who also came to a sticky end, were all working the same Scottish connection that I had been cultivation, so I decided to make myself scarce for a while.Where better to hide than at the root of the proble...



  • Whilst wondering why certain dealers are bidding themselves into poverty for a fake painting, Lovejoy is invited to check whether antiques being secretly lifted from Venice are genuine. The offer is too good to refuse, but it involves him with a part...



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    'Blood Dancing' unites Dr Clare Burtonall with the gritty underworld of the city as she is called upon to examine the body of an underage prostitute who was savagely attacked and dumped in a bin to die....






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    Dr. Clare Burtonall is a hard working doctor whose job is fraught with danger. Working with the police she is constantly at risk and now she is becoming involved in the workings of the Manchester underworld....



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    The latest adventure from Lovejoy: the irrepressible antique hunter, lothario and out-and-out conman. Lovejoy is in serious trouble. For it appears that a local lad known as Mortimer shares his extraordinary talent for distinguishing genuine antiques...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jonathan Gash has published 31 books.

Jonathan Gash does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Lovejoy, was published in August 2016.

The first book by Jonathan Gash, The Judas Pair, was published in November 1977.

Yes. Jonathan Gash has 2 series.