When her dream job turns into a living nightmare, causing her to become the prime suspect in a murder investigation, art gallery manager Alice Humphrey must prove that she has been set up--a deadly mission that plunges her into a high-tech criminal conspiracy that is shockingly linked to her own family.
This was the second Alafair Burke novel I read in 2 months, but this one wasn't as good as the first. The story is about Alice Humphrey, a rich girl who has declined the help of her father and is therefore in need of a job and surprise, one falls into her lap one evening at an art show. Before she knows it, she is alone in charge of a gallery. But what seems too good to be true often is, and when her benefactor ends up dead, she ends up accused of his murder.
The frame-up job is good, but this plot was really convoluted. There are a lot of moving pieces, and frankly, one too many story-lines. There's a subplot involving a missing teen that is connected to the main story with only the thinnest of threads, and I think the whole thing could have been cut out without harming the book at all. Even when I got to the end I didn't really understand why it was there.
But overall I still enjoy Burke as an author, and I look forward to trying out more of her books.
