Wealthy art collector Denise Caxton's mysterious death is just the beginning of this page-turning thriller, which takes readers behind the scenes to glitzy East Side auction houses, where patrons fix prices; to top-level police meetings, where inflated statistics are all that matter; to courtrooms, where justice does not always prevail; to prisons, where convicts plot audacious scams -- and to the cutting-edge art galleries of Chelsea, which provide the perfect backdrop for murder. Soon Alex and one of her partners become the targets as well as the investigators in this compelling, tension-filled tour de force.