Amy Hobbes never expected to solve anything more than a crossword puzzle.  When she left her job as a journalist in Southern California, she planned to give the adrenaline a rest.  But she needed a job when her husband announced a move to Chicago with his pregnant girlfriend.  A meeting with the local newspaper publisher netted her an offer to be the Managing Editor. She relies on her friend and police reporter, Clarice Stamms, for support and stories.  After a respected Senator and World War II hero dies and two more people turn up dead, the news heats up.  Both victims had ties to a hotel owned by the Senator’s family. Research into the family uncovers a shadowy figure, also a World War II veteran, linked to the Senator. The third victim at the hotel is a surprise.  It’s a cousin of the current owner—and grandson of the Senator—who’s fallen, or been pushed, from the attic. Visiting the hotel, Amy and a friend meet an urbane European, a Holocaust survivor who’s spent sixty years tracking down Nazi loot.  Amy learns that three people have just died to keep the secret of a stolen da Vinci drawing.