A noble family a legendary painting a cursed palazzo. When Arnold Clover is recruited by
Lizzie Hawker to help her look into her family inheritance he cannot begin to guess the
journey he is about to embark on. Lizzie's mother an Italian countess disappeared thirty
years ago presumed dead. Her father has just died and now the family home a leaning palazzo
in Dorsoduro that is full of secrets has fallen to Lizzie. When her mother vanished so too did
a priceless painting of Lucrezia Borgia - but it quickly becomes apparent that Lizzie and
Arnold are not the only ones interested in finding it. The search for the lost Lucrezia quickly
becomes a race through the secret history of Venice one with potentially deadly consequences.
