After violence linked to Daniel’s police work threatens their New York home, Molly takes baby Liam to Paris to stay with Sid and Gus. She arrives to find that both women have disappeared, and her search moves through artists’ studios, salons and crowded cafés as political tensions surrounding the Dreyfus Affair continue.
Molly finds a body and realizes that her friends may have witnessed something dangerous. Alone in an unfamiliar city, she follows their movements among painters, performers and wealthy patrons to find them before the killer reaches her and Liam.