When human bodies become works of art. Some sculptors work with wood, others with stone. Takeshi Ono, as a material, preferred human bodies. When his anatomical exhibition “Ars Mortis” opened in Paris, Valentina Savi, a young restorer working for the mysterious “Stern Foundation,” received an alarming call. Her best friend, whose husband had disappeared nine years earlier in Chechnya, believed she had seen his body in Takeshi Ono’s anatomical theater. The call for help came at a most inappropriate moment for Valentina—at precisely the time she was following the trail of a brilliant art forger, whose fakes had already spread to the world’s largest collections…