The chrysalis

By Heather Terrell

Subjects: Repatriation, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Art thefts, Fiction, legal, Cultural property, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, suspense, World War, 1939-1945, Destruction and pillage, Fiction, Art treasures in war, Europe, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction

Description: Hard-driving Manhattan attorney Mara Coyne is confronted by the case of her career when she is asked to defend a prestigious auction house against claims that a mysterious Dutch masterpiece about to be sold is a Nazi wartime theft.