Publisher's Synopsis
William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, & decides, much to his father's dismay, that rather than become a barrister like his father & his sister, he will join London's Metropolitan Police Force. After graduating from university, William begins a career that will define his life: from his early months on the beat under his mentor, Constable Fred Yates, to his first high-stakes case as a fledgling detective in Scotland Yard's arts & antiquities squad. Investigating the theft of a priceless Rembrandt painting from the Fitzmolean Museum, he meets Beth Rainsford, a research assistant at the gallery who he falls hopelessly in love with, even as Beth guards a secret of her own that she's terrified will come to light. While William follows the trail of the missing masterpiece, he comes up against art collector Miles Faulkner & his lawyer, Booth Watson QC, who are willing to bend the law to breaking point to stay one step ahead of William.
