Over twenty years ago, the heiress Patricia Lockwood was abducted
during a robbery of her family's estate, then locked inside an
isolated cabin for months. Patricia escaped, but so did her
captors - and the items stolen from her family were never
recovered.
Until now. On the Upper West Side, a recluse is found murdered in
his penthouse apartment, alongside two objects of note, a stolen
Vermeer painting and a leather suitcase bearing the initials
WHL3. For the first time in years, the authorities have a lead -
not only on Patricia's kidnapping, but also on another FBI cold
case - with the suitcase and painting both pointing them toward
one man.