CODE OF THE MORNING STAR

Irwin's plots are so visual it's difficult to narrow things down and figure out what to focus on. This was my take on a DaVinci Code-esq thriller. "A desperate search begins--When a fabulously wealthy Venetian patron of the arts disappears on the opening day of her new Paris gallery, her friends immediately set out to find her, following clues that take them from the boulevards of Paris to the canals of Amsterdam, where a grim discovery awaits them: a brutally murdered book dealer and a stolen 13th century Gnostic bible..."