Lex Stall, Manhattan's tenacious female detective is on the hunt for a killer. Retired Metropolitan Museum of Art curator and artist, Fredrike Cambourd is murdered in his basement studio. Who would kill this seemingly harmless man? Jerry Davidson, the artist's friend is at the crime scene and his edginess doesn't sit well with the veteran detective, and she tags him a person of interest. Davidson, an art consultant, proves to be elusive, and suddenly disappears to London on a business trip. Lex continues her investigation and discovers that the man's alibi has a hole in it. She also learns Davidson is not the man he pretends to be. Upon his return to New York, Lex pursues her prey until an unforeseen event occurs and upends her investigation. Was she wrong about Davidson, or was he indeed Cambourd's killer?Either way, it was Fredrike Cambourd's dark secrets that led to his demise. Dying wasn't the worst thing that could have happened to him.