The antiques game is nothing but trouble - beautiful, lovely trouble. And in his latest escapade, Lovejoy is in trouble up to his ears. It begins when he witnesses the murder of a fellow dealer who had recently purchased some unimportant items belonging to a local doctor recently deceased. But why were the big boys so keen to acquire these that they were prepared to kill him - and then send thugs to dispose of Lovejoy as well?

Lovejoy is given a job by a ghost. The Other Side had instructed him to help blonde, pretty, Donna Vernon find her missing dealer husband (antiques don't die, but dealers do). A natural cynic and truth seeker, Lovejoy also knows a job is a job and East Anglia's scruffiest antique dealer needs to earn a crust. But by the time he catches up with Vernon, it's too late for pearls of wisdom......

Lovejoy always aimed to succeed in the antiques business, or die trying - and this time he almost did! Lovejoy was going through some hard times. Not only were the writ servers, several amorous ladies and the local hoodlums all after him - but some witches and a murderer had set up business in the woods. And suddenly Lovejoy had more offers of employment than any impoverished, luck-pushing antiques dealer had any right to expect - or survive.

Essington Holt, intrepid art collector, nouveau millionaire, is intrigued when an old friend from his outback days suggests a meeting in Paris. Robert Carbentus' claim to own a Van Gogh had always fascinated Essington and he was in the mood to know more. But when Robert fails to turn up for the meeting, detained, indefinitely, by a terrorist bomb, Essington is sparked into action, and steps straight into danger.....