Title: The chrysalis
Description: Hard-driving Manhattan attorney Mara Coyne is confronted by the case of her career when she is asked to defend a prestigious auction house against claims that a mysterious Dutch masterpiece about to be sold is a Nazi wartime theft.
Subjects: Repatriation, Cultural property, World War, 1939-1945, Art treasures in war, Art thefts, Destruction and pillage, Fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Europe, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, legal, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, suspense
Places: Europe, New York (N.Y.)