DODGE AND BURN

A photojournalist's life is roiled by shocking revelations.

After a murder at Dulles Airport, Sophie Medina is sent to take pictures, and she helps identify the contents of the victim’s suitcases as antiquities that were stolen from a museum in Ukraine. The well-connected widow of a murdered CIA agent and the daughter of a short marriage between her mother and the late soccer star Antonio Medina, Sophie was brought up in Virginia by her mother and stepfather, a wealthy horse breeder. Robson Blake, a philanthropist with a fabulous art collection, hires her to photograph some new acquisitions, making it a condition that she delete all copies after she gives them to him. Arriving at Blake’s home, she’s sent to his vault to take photos but accidentally gets off on the wrong floor and sees a room full of stunning icons. Shortly thereafter, Spanish journalist Enrique Navarro, a friend of her father’s, tells her she has a half-brother, recently vanished reporter Daniel Worth, and reveals that her father wrote her letters for years, setting up an upsetting meeting with her mother, who admits to getting the letters, keeping them, but never showing them to Sophie. Furious with her mother’s meddling, she returns to D.C., has dinner with Navarro and learns that Danny is a modern-day Robin Hood who liberates stolen artworks and returns them to their owners. When Danny breaks into her studio, they have a long talk, and she mentions her suspicions about stolen items in Blake’s collection. She’s plunged into the dangerous world of stolen art when she finds Blake murdered with her tripod. Could Danny be the killer?

A fascinating look at a worldwide problem spiced with romance and family angst.