revenge is Joanna Stark's goal, but it doesn't work out as expected

Joanna Stark is part owner of an art security firs and and art lover. In her early years she spent time in the London art scene, meeting a variety of people — good and bad.

Two very valuable art pieces have been stolen and she thinks she know who the theif is. She comes up with a scheme to trap the thief using another piece of art. Her capturing this well-known theif isn't just to get the pieces back — there is a very personal reason that comes from her past.

Finding a dead man at a location she expected to find the thief, starts her on a trail into the art underworld and on detours from her original plans. It is not just a matter of stolen art, it is also violent murders.

Stark is not afraid of taking chances and is bold in going after what she wants. What sometimes trips her up are flashback to parts of her past and dealing with them. Some of the people she is dealing with were part of her past.

The story moved along and kept me wanting to keep reading. ( )

An almost terminally without a clue heroine and a rarely believable plot clearly make this part of Muller's finding her way to Sharon McCone. ( )