Mackenzie Griffin isn’t sure she heard a rifle shot ring out as she walked along the quiet New England beach near her parents’ home, but all doubt disappears when a body washes ashore the next morning. When the police confirm the dead man is Malcolm Howard, well-known owner of the local art gallery, Mac and her family become even more involved – because her brother Chad bought Howard’s gallery only days before the art dealer’s mysterious death.
As the investigation by the small-town police department gets underway, two well-dressed goons appear at the gallery and beat Chad senseless when he can’t answer their repeated question: ‘Where is it?’ But where exactly is what?
Soon Mac and her brother are not only trying to solve a murder, but struggling through a world of clandestine art thefts, expert forgeries, obsessive collectors, and other possibly mysterious deaths. Can Mac and her brother find the answers quickly enough to outwit the men who apparently have killing on their agenda?