In the heart of the holiday season, priceless paintings have vanished from a Park Avenue murder scene. Now, dashing French detective Luc Moncrief must become a quick study in the art of the steal-before a coldblooded killer paints the town red.

Suffering a breakdown after a traumatic case three years earlier, former NYPD vice cop Dan Champion starts over as a small-town detective and is shocked by a case involving the murder of a woman he recognizes from a hallucination whose identity a group of expert killers would keep a secret.

As twenty-year NYPD veteran Joe Rizzo edges closer to retirement he finds most baffling case of his career, a murder investigation. The victim, Robert Lauria, was practically a hermit and was dead ten days before anyone found him. So who strangled him late one night as he made tea in his kitchen? And could there be a connection to the headline-grabbing murder of a Broadway producer a day earlier? Armed with more street smarts than the FBI agents assigned...

Tony Scali is a tough yet compassionate small-town police commissioner, juggling the grim realities of police work with the laid-back sensibilities of his close-knit community. As dedicated to his family as he is to his work, Scali's intelligence, intensity, humor and quirky charm make him a one-of-a-kind cop.