Art Kills

From the marbled precincts of New York''s uptown museum scene to the galleries and lofts of Soho to a Mafia mansion on the coast of Long Island, Lustbader''s hotly paced novella sweeps Tess Chase - a no-nonsense woman with a connoisseur''s taste for martial and fine arts - into the perilous pursuit of a long-lost painting by Renaissance master Raphael.