On a Steamy August Evening, After an Exhausting Day in Court, Assistant Da Alexandra Cooper is Called to a Crime Scene. Alongside Her Colleagues, Nypd Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, She Views the Body of a Young Woman Pulled From the Water With Her Hands and Feet Obscenely Tied to a Ladder. but Who is She? Her Elegant Clothes and Manicured Nails Suggest Affluent Connections, but Just How Well-Connected She is Surprises Even Alex. From Luxurious Fifth Avenue Apartments to the Avant Garde Galleries of Chelsea, Alex, Mike and Mercer Hunt for a Killer in a World Where Priceless Art Meets Big Money in a Lethal Mix.