Bodies of Art #4

There should be an official warning label on books by Ritter Ames: Do not read out of order! I love the Bodies of Art books, but they have  highly involved plots with many references back to events that happened in previous books. If you read them out of order you will spend more time in the dark trying to figure about what is going on then actually enjoying the plot. Do yourself a favor and start at the beginning. You will enjoy the series much, much more.

In Fatal Forgeries, Laurel Beacham and her Gorgeous Geek Nico are in the midst of retrieving a stolen Caravaggio - in the middle of the night through cat burglar techniques. When she arrives back at the Beacham Foundation headquarters, she discovers she may have disrupted a project Jack Hawkes was working on for  whichever secret organization he works for.

When Nico goes missing, Laurel is worried about him, but Jack,

ever the suspicious one, believes Nico has gone to the "other side." When video appears showing Nico being lead willingly away with to "bad guys", Laurel is deeply distressed. Had she misjudged Nico or was Jack right that Nico would be easily tempted to switch sides.

Throughout the book we run into some of Laurel's "charming" acquaintances - the shadowy Moran, newspaper reporter Lincoln Ferguson, her boss at the Foundation Max and the ever-unpredictable Rollie. You just know there will be a #5 in this series.

For the first book and others in this series, click here.