A terrible discovery at a contemporary art exhibition turns a missing person case into a murder investigation. Nobody wants to handle it—the tangled, baffling, and inexplicably contradictory circumstances are too much. Sandra Morris, who has returned to Australia for the first time in several years, agrees only to act as a consultant. But a string of bloody events may make a showdown with an elusive criminal inevitable—and this time, hoping for Yan’s help isn’t possible, because he’s far across the ocean.