FACETS

Mara Voss is the best jewel thief working the European circuit, and the Vienna museum was supposed to be her clean exit. When every stone she lifts turns out to be synthetic, she realizes the curator did not miss her surveillance. He designed the theft to audition her. The real necklace is sitting in an arms dealer's vault in Monaco, the original curator has been dead for a decade, and the man now running the museum needs a thief who does not ask the question his plan cannot survive: why this necklace, and why now?