One meets interesting characters in the art trade: obsessive collectors and greedy agents, cocky patrons and vain curators, audacious forgers and simple thieves. When a Viennese art appraiser and a Berlin collector are murdered almost simultaneously, Inspector Anna Habel and Commissioner Thomas Bernhardt have to find out what lies beneath the surface of this colourful world. In this industry, no one knows what’s genuine and what’s false. Whether it’s a matter of paintings or feelings: you can trust no one. And yet spring has sprung – the sun is shining, and the world is revealing itself to be so alluring that it proves hard for Anna Habel and Thomas Bernhardt to keep their wits about them.