Vienne Kenney returns to Clayburn after failing the bar exam twice and runs into former school friend Jackson Linder; however, their relationship grows cold when Vienne discovers he is fresh out of rehab recovering from the same illness that killed her father.
A theft from an art gallery leads detective Angel Cardoni to make a series of improvised on-the-spot lab experiments and scientifically inspired deductions.
Twenty-year-old Pat, working at an Edinburgh art gallery while on sabbatical from college, becomes involved in the lives of her eccentric neighbors at 44 Scotland Street, while trying to solve the mystery of a possible lost masterpiece.
Hoping to become a famous artist one day, Seymour Snail takes a job in a New York City art gallery, where everyone is buzzing about a "magnificent mystery artist.".