History Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Tingley: Doris Duke, SouthEastern Art Collection | 2003 | Buy |
| Buddhas | 2009 | Buy |
| Arts of Ancient Viet Nam | 2009 | Buy |
| Celestial Realms: The Art of Nepal from California Collections | 2012 | Buy |
Jenna Murphy Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| A Head in Cambodia | 2017 | Buy |
| A Death in Bali | 2018 | Buy |
Nancy Tingley is an independent art historian, museum consultant, and mystery writer with a specialty in Southeast Asian art. She has worked as a curator at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and published several scholarly volumes on subjects ranging from Cambodian sculpture to Balinese painting.
Her Jenna Murphy Mystery series draws directly on her curatorial background. In A Head in Cambodia, a young museum curator named Jenna Murphy stumbles into a murder investigation when an eleventh-century Cambodian stone head arrives at her museum. The sequel, A Death in Bali, takes Jenna to Ubud to study early twentieth-century Balinese art, where she again finds herself entangled in a crime. Both novels give readers an insider’s view of the Asian art world and its underground markets.
On the non-fiction side, Tingley has authored and edited several major art publications, including works on the Doris Duke Southeast Asian Art Collection, a volume on Buddhist sculpture, and catalogs for exhibitions of Vietnamese and Nepalese art.