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Sheila Sharpe, Mystery Author ✍️
@sheilasharpeauthor.bsky.social
Novelist, artist, psychologist. Loves mysteries, art, music, and dogs. 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩, 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧, 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙧, 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛 https://geni.us/ArtistLoverForgerThief available now! https://www.sheilasharpe.com for more...
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🖼️ Hi, friends 👋

My book, 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩, 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧, 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙧, 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛, is out now!

"A riveting, wildly entertaining, complex, and adrenaline-fueled art crime novel that is as intriguing as it is satisfying..."

geni.us/ArtistLoverF... at your fav store!
Happy Thanksgiving!

#Thanksgiving2025
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/qJ7Sdxt

There is no one profile of an art thief. People steal art for many reasons, most commonly for profit.

#ArtTheft Image Birmingham Museums Trust on Unsplash
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Unlike many thieves who are drawn to crime by the risk and excitement of breaking the law, Professor Feller got no thrill from stealing.

~ @SheilaSharpe How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: Part 2

#ArtTheft Image: Birmingham Museums Trust via Unsplash
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Field of Gold | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://ow.ly/mBQe50Wx1pR

I used to be a painter. That career didn't work out, so I took up writing fiction - seemed a cleaner route to poverty.

#MondayBlogs Image by Birmingham Museums Trust via Unsplash
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
🔵 NEW: How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists Part 3: Prestige — The Glorified Shoplifter

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth – Pablo Picasso

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#MondayBlogs #ArtTheft
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙈𝙮 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙄𝙣𝙫𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝘽𝙡𝙚𝙬 𝙈𝙮 𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙙 : The hidden inspirations behind a novelist’s heroine | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/AFJeGUl

"I should have known sooner. Or at least suspected."

#MondayBlogs #Writing
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: 2 | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/Mmq5gXA

🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: 1 | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/qJ7Sdxt

#MondayBlogs
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Humiliating important donors is a certain way for museums to lose their critical financial supporters.

~ @SheilaSharpe How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: Part 2

#ArtTheft Image: Birmingham Museums Trust via Unsplash
November 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
🎨 "I'm a collection of masks with no face behind them."

𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩, 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧, 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙧, 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛, by by @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social
📕 https://geni.us/ArtistLoverForgerThief

Available now! A 5-star Readers Favorite! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

#ArtCrime #Books
November 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Typically, museums do not ask a donor where the donated work(s) came from, especially a donor with status and impeccable credentials like those of [art thief] Dr. Feller.

~ @SheilaSharpe How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: Part 2

#QOTD #ArtTheft
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The International Foundation for Art Research dubbed Professor Feller “a Robin Hood of the arts” because he frequently stole from one museum or private collection and lent or donated the spoils to another.

🎨 @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social "How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: Part 2"

#QOTD
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/qJ7Sdxt

There is no one profile of an art thief. People steal art for many reasons, most commonly for profit.

#ArtTheft
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
To create one’s own world takes courage.

~ Georgia O’Keeffe

#QOTD
November 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Field of Gold | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://ow.ly/mBQe50Wx1pR

I used to be a painter. That career didn't work out, so I took up writing fiction - seemed a cleaner route to poverty.

#MondayBlogs Image by Birmingham Museums Trust via Unsplash
November 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Two Tall Women in NYC | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social via FeminineCollective https://ow.ly/i5wK50WEENg

"Losing my identity was not in our plan. Mary and I came to the big city to celebrate finishing our books—my psychological thriller and her memoir of love and loss."

#MondayBlogs
November 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙈𝙮 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙄𝙣𝙫𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝘽𝙡𝙚𝙬 𝙈𝙮 𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙙 : The hidden inspirations behind a novelist’s heroine | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/AFJeGUl

"I should have known sooner. Or at least suspected."

#MondayBlogs #Writing
November 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: 2 | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/Mmq5gXA

🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: 1 | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/qJ7Sdxt

#MondayBlogs
November 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.

~ Edward Hopper

#QOTD
November 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
🎨 My book, 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩, 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧, 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙧, 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛, is out now! A 5-star @ReadersFavorite!

"A wildly entertaining, complex, and adrenaline-fueled art crime novel as intriguing as it is satisfying..."

📕 https://geni.us/ArtistLoverForgerThief
by @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social

#Books
November 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

~ Celia Cruz

#QOTD
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Every time I have had a problem, I have confronted it with the ax of art.

~ Yayoi Kusama

#QOTD
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/qJ7Sdxt

There is no one profile of an art thief. People steal art for many reasons, most commonly for profit.

#ArtTheft
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I can become obsessed with every mark and brushstroke on the canvas. As if every mark is a note of music and they all have to come together to be coherent, like a symphonic composition – and then it will sing the song I want to sing.

~ Suzy Murphy

#QOTD
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Field of Gold | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://ow.ly/mBQe50Wx1pR

The first occupant I saw in Julia's conservation studio was a nine-foot-tall Madonna. She was a fright - her face flaking, her oversized halo full of cracks, her dull white gown ripped and stained.

#MondayBlogs
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Two Tall Women in NYC | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social via FeminineCollective https://ow.ly/i5wK50WEENg

"Losing my identity was not in our plan. Mary and I came to the big city to celebrate finishing our books—my psychological thriller and her memoir of love and loss."

#MondayBlogs
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM