The Ice Cream Shop Detective: An Art Mystery

Art forgery and murder are the last things Lissa Franklin expects to encounter when her hunt for beautiful places to paint brings her to Tarrytown. Twenty miles up the Hudson from the fame-and money-oriented New York art scene she dislikes, Tarrytown has a charming Main Street that inspires her. Charismatic cop Nick Bellini, whose family owns the ice cream shop in Lissa's first local painting, admires her work and asks her to be on the lookout for forgeries that may be coming out of the area. Drawn to him but hesitant, she takes the plunge and tells him when she sees a questionable Monet in the home of a local power couple. Her involvement gets dangerous when she responds to a vague request for help from a fellow artist and finds him dead in his studio. Is there a link to the forgeries? Is someone in the art community a killer? Could Lissa be the next target?