appraisers

When Sterling Glass is called in to examine a diamond brooch found in the Salvation Army thrift store, she suspects a link to a valuable tea urn she recently discovered and uncovers an intricate plot involving a slew of antiques, some sophisticated scammers, crooked antique dealers, shifty people at the best New York auction houses.

Josie, owner of Prescott's Antiques and Appraisals in New Hampshire, is surprised when her always dependable assistant Gretchen fails to show up for work, and she begins to investigate after a dead body is found in Gretchen's apartment, making her the next target of the killer.

An art assessor finds himself drawn into a seemingly endless succession of basement levels when he sets out to evaluate the warehoused collection at Paris's Louvre Museum.