The Museum of Confiscated Property

THE CARDINAL RULE OF THE MUSEUM OF CONFISCATED PROPERTY IS THAT CONFISCATED ITEMS ARE NEVER RETURNED ...

Maria Cordobes's quiet, rather uneventful life as curator of the Museum of Confiscated Property in Clerkenwell spirals out of control when her desperate brother begs her to send him money to pay his gambling debts to a shady gang in Barcelona. Then a blackmailer demands the return of an ancient Egyptian statuette reputed to have the Hyaena Stone of prophecy as one eye and the Elixir of Life in its belly, and Maria is forced to choose: abandon her brother in his hour of need or break the law and go against everything she believes in.

Things get even more complicated when her friend Jake Martin, an actor who goes to extreme lengths to prepare for his roles, tells Maria there's someone stalking her…