A DISCERNING EYE

Narrator Kathleen McElfresh begins this fast-paced thriller in Boston, where art dealer Portia Malatesta is determined to solve the recent art heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. McElfresh provides understated voices for an array of characters, ranging from Portia's family to the Mafia underworld. When Portia develops a theory of criminal profiling based on the types of art stolen, the FBI enlists her aid. The trail leads to Colombia, where narrator Campbell Scott takes over. Scott takes the listener inside the villa of a top member of a drug cartel who also happens to be an astute art collector. Scott narrates with clarity and dramatic intensity, delivering various subtle accents as Portia carries out her dangerous mission. J.E.S. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine [Published: JANUARY 2021]