Famous artist and serial killer Marsden Gexkamp is shot dead in the courtroom on the day of his sentencing. Thirty years have passed... The first victim of a new series of murders is found in a lost motel, and planted evidence points to Marsden Hexkamp. Unraveling this difficult case, detectives Ryder and Nautilus find themselves in the shocking world of collectors of things with which the most scandalous murders were committed, and begin to understand that here death is a bloody art and a way of profit.