The idea of the plot was good - art looted by the Nazis and its recovery, lawsuits about ownership and the like are still current topics. I was engaged enough and in enough suspense to want to know how it ends (or how Tamara manages to accomplish what we kind of guess will happen). But the story, to me, was ruined by the addition of the "paranormal" and "supernatural" (to use words in the book), making it a bit silly or less credible. The plotline could have worked just as well without that. I also thought the end could have been accomplished more cleverly. And then the gratuitous "romance" and sex is annoying to me. It's not that there was so much of it, it's that I wish a good story could stand on its own without always having to put in that element, and with such cliches, like "ripping each other's clothes off" or the main character, in this case Tamara, being so horny for every good looking guy, and, of course, every important guy in the story is good-looking. Why does her lawyer have to be a young guy with movie star looks? What does that really add? I think it cheapens what could have been a better book. The art history is interesting, and Shapiro has an excellent art theme in several other books of hers that I read, clearly a deep interest of hers. But I think I'm done with her books because more than once she disappointed me by adding in unnecessary elements. It didn't bother me with Manet - he was a philanderer and I suppose it was the author's way of setting up the plot. But it's totally irrelevant for Tamara. As far as the narration, I have definitely sworn off listening to anything narrated by Lucy Rayner, whose sing-song drove me crazy in another book that I listened to with her narration, and here, because she was not the narrator in the sample, I did not think about it until it was too late. She's awful and should not narrate books.