The Odd Job

One of Boston's landmark museums is shaken by a savage murder.

When
the doddering patrons of the Wilkins Museum learned that dozens of
their priceless masterworks had been stolen and replaced by forgeries,
there was no one to turn to but Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn -- the
savviest art detectives of the Boston upper crust. Nabbing the crooks
was easy, but finding the missing paintings has proven trickier. Years
later, the collection's prized Titian is still lost, and the new
director, loudmouthed cattle baron Elwyn Fleesom Turbot, is getting
impatient. And things get even more troublesome when members of his
staff begin to die.
It starts when Dolores Tawne, the elderly,
bossy museum administrator, is stabbed through the base of her skull
with an antique hatpin. Inside the dead woman's safe deposit box Sarah
finds clues to a conspiracy that stretches back decades and a way to
stop the murders that are still to come.