TWIST (A Rebecca Ashley Mystery) (The Rebecca Ashley Mystery Series) (Volume 1)

Deception... Blackmail... Murder... The Art World. Rebecca Ashley (Becca) dreams in color, mostly acrylic. It's current day San Francisco. Despite all the odds, divorce, eviction and mounting money problems, Becca is determined to finish school. Shortly after Becca has temporarily moved into her Professor Sophie-Anne's live/work loft her Professor is murdered. Becca discovers that no one is who they claim and nothing is as it seems. Propelled into the underworld of art and artifact smuggling Becca has to decide who to trust. Two of Sophie-Anne's thieving business partners, a charming Brit, Clark Wright, and swashbuckling Belizian, Antoine Palacio reveal Sophie-Anne's murder is tied to a blackmailer who expects a large ransome from the sale of a mysterious French artifact. When the three fail to relinquish his fee the blackmailer murders Sophie-Anne in hopes it will scare the other two thieves into giving up the money. Now Antoine and Clark are running scared. Only problem is Sophie-Anne was the only one who knew where the object is hidden. Now Becca must find the artifact and decide who to trust or suffer Sophie-Anne's fate.