"Third in the bestselling series featuring private investigator Leonid McGill, following KNOWN TO EVIL and THE LONG FALL. In this latest mystery, an artist with money in hand, who says she's escaped poverty via a marriage to a rich collector who keeps her on a stipend, fears for her life and asks Leonid to help. Leonid knows better than to believe every word, but this isn't a job he can afford to turn away, even as he senses that - if his family's misadventures don't kill him first - sorting out her crooked tale will bring him straight to death's door."--Publisher.