In the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, demons break free from centuries-old locks, and detective Alexandra Cooper has to deal with murders, rapes and accidents that turn out to be not at all accidental...The brightest star of the American detective, winner of the Nero Wolfe Award Linda Fairstein knows the world of high art, base passions and terrible crimes well. Before embarking on a distinguished writing career, she worked as an investigator and prosecutor in Manhattan for twenty-five years.