"When a slam-bang of a crime brings a beautiful new client into Stone Barrington's office, little does he know his association with her will pull him into a far more serpentine mystery in the exclusive world of art. It's a business where a rare find could make a career--and a collection--and mistakes in judgment are costly. And under its genteel and high-minded veneer lurks an assortment of grifters and malfeasants eager to cash in on the game. In the exclusive world of New York City's luxury penthouses and grand Hamptons estates, it will take a man of Stone Barrington's careful discernment and well-honed instincts to get to the truth without ruffling the wrong feathers ... because when it comes to priceless and irreplaceable works of art, the money and reputations at stake are worth killing for."

In New York City's luxury penthouses and grand Hamptons estates, the art world is a business where a rare find could make a career, and mistakes in judgment are costly. Grifters and malfeasants are eager to cash in on the game. Thanks to his beautiful new client, Stone Barrington soon finds out that, when it comes to priceless and irreplaceable works of art, the money and reputations at stake are worth killing for.