The Constellation Thief: A Vivienne Swan Mystery

When a priceless Renaissance painting vanishes from Cygnus Alarch Hall, Associate Professor Vivienne Swan finds herself drawn into a mystery that defies rational explanation.The painting is gone. The thief is obvious. And yet nothing about this theft makes sense.As Vivienne investigates the disappearance alongside archaeoastronomy PhD student Jasper Crane, she begins to notice a pattern - one that her rigorously analytical mind keeps filing away before she can examine it too closely. Because some conclusions, once reached, cannot be unfiled.Set in a fictional Oxford-adjacent institution of ancient and ambiguous founding, The Constellation Thief is the first book in the Cygnus Alarch Hall Mysteries - a cozy dark academia series where the past is never quite past, and the rational explanation is never quite enough. The Constellation Thief is Book 1 in The Vivienne Swan Mystery Series.