Hemlock Bay

FBI Agent Dillon Savich already has his hands full with a hard case, the abduction of two teenage boys, when a call from California pulls him toward home. His younger sister Lily has driven her car into a redwood near Hemlock Bay. Savich has to wonder whether it was an accident or a second suicide attempt, coming about seven months after Lily lost her young daughter.

The truth looks far stranger than grief. Savich and his wife and fellow agent, Sherlock, learn that four paintings Lily inherited from their famous grandmother, the artist Sarah Elliot, are now worth millions. Those canvases sit at the center of a tangled conspiracy, and someone is willing to do a great deal to get hold of them.

Lily, together with art broker Simon Russo, is drawn into a spreading web of danger that traces back to the locked room of a notorious collector. As the menace closes in, madness and murder follow, and brother and sister each have to confront the thing they fear most if they want to come through alive.