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 author, a lawyer who has represented over one hundred clients on death row, presents a candid look at capital punishment and the American criminal justice system in his account of a Texas execution.
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.