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The second book in a deftly written series featuring Pastor Luke Bowers and Detective Amy Hunter
Susan Champagne was one of the summer people the seasonal visitors who each year made Tidewater County’s cash registers sing.
But she brought a dangerous secret to town that summer which she shared with Luke Bowers shortly before she was killed - a secret involving a mysterious photograph an ancient Biblical parable and the most notorious art heist in American history.
While investigating her death relentless state police homicide detective Amy Hunter learns that Tidewater County - a picturesque seafood and sailing resort on Chesapeake Bay - may have been hand-picked for an unusual high-stakes crime orchestrated by stolen-art merchant Arturo Nuveau. And that Nuveau’s crime may have been the catalyst for Susan Champagne’s death.
At the heart of the case is a 1633 Rembrandt masterpiece The Storm on the Sea of Galilee the artist’s only seascape painting which hasn’t been seen publicly since it was stolen in 1990.
Working with the FBI’s Art Crimes Unit and with the help of Pastor Luke Bowers Hunter follows the trail of this lost treasure encountering a string of ruthless criminals bad guys an obsessive and unorthodox art collector and rumors of a “curse” surrounding the stolen painting.
For Bowers the circumstances of Susan Champagne’s death and his own tangential involvement cause him to wrestle with and re-evaluate the nature of his faith.
As Hunter meanwhile discovers the truth about why Susan Champagne was killed she is drawn into an elaborate game of deception and betrayal - which threatens first her credibility and then her life.
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