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The Peregrine family's lives are turned upside down one summer when so-called "art experts" appear on the doorstep of their Connecticut island home to appraise a favorite heirloom painting. When incriminating papers, as well as other paintings, are discovered behind the artwork in question, the appraisal turns into a full-fledged investigation. Antagonism mounts between grandmother, mother, and child, who begin to suspect one another, as well as the shady newcomers in their midst, of foul play.As the summer progresses and the Peregrines discover facts about their past in the course of the investigation, they learn that people -- including them -- are not always who they appear to be. But when they uncover the painting's deepest secret, it gives them the gift of love that they have unconsciously been seeking all along.