Stone quarry

Description:

Bill Smith's country cabin in upstate New York is far from the city's savage streets--a retreat where a weary P.I. can play Mozart on his upright piano and let nature heal him. But when Eve Colgate, a local farmer and painter, asks him to find stolen items--six paintings which could reveal Eve's highly guarded thirty-year-old secret--he caves. When Smith's partner, Lydia Chin, comes in on the action, she brings along her cool courage and sharp mind. It's a simple case--until the runaway daughter of a hotshot politician and the murder of a local hood change the playing field. Now the stench of corruption fills this rural paradise, as Bill and Lydia scour through dangerous secrets and greedy corridors for the stone-cold truth...

subjects: Private investigators,  Women artists,  Private investigators in fiction,  Art thefts in fiction,  Women artists in fiction,  Crimes against,  Fiction,  Lydia Chin (Fictitious character),  Bill Smith (Fictitious character),  Art thefts,  Chinese Americans,  Women detectives,  Large type books,  Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural,  Chin, lydia (fictitious character), fiction,  Smith, bill (fictitious character), fiction,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  Chinese americans, fiction,  Private investigators, fiction

Places: New York (State)