Goddess of Death // Murder in Valencia — Roy Lewis

A TRAIL OF SHADOWS…

It's the chance of two lifetimes for antiquities expert Arnold Landon. He's tracked down an ancient, long-vanished statuette of Artemis straight to one of Europe's most infamous art thieves. Finding the piece for an artifact-recovery organization will help him make history for once instead of watching it pass by from his uneventful job. But when the thief is brutally murdered and the Artemis again disappears, Arnold discovers that the statuette's dark backstory as Nazi plunder and Soviet atrocity barter is anything but past.…

Arnold races to uncover clues through a maze of historical lies and bureaucratic obstruction. He'll face down witnesses skilled at turning the truth into official fiction -- and trust into a weapon. And when two more killings put his career and his organization's very existence on the line, he'll have no choice but to bait a merciless adversary with an irresistible prize…his life.