Kirk Keswick has lead a perfectly happy life working for London's Ballantine & Company Auctioneer, with no thoughts of love on her mind, but her world is turned upside down when an American scoundrel and womanizer sweeps her off her feet.
Georgetown gallery owner is writing an article on Christopher Columbus for the Library of Congress magazine. As she bigins her research she wonders, "Would someone in Washington kill to possess a 500-year old diary?".
The senior curator at the National Gallery of Art plans a brilliant exhibition around a long-lost Caravaggio painting while secretly scheming to steal the priceless work of art for himself.
Investigative team Rick Klayman and Moses Johnson find themselves with a wealth of suspects when they set out to catch the murderer of Nadia, an attractive young woman who worked for the philandering senator Bruce Lerner.