After moving in with her fiance, lawyer Hugh Glendinning, in Washington, D.C., antique dealer and sometime sleuth, Rei Shimura takes on the decoration of a trendy new Asian restaurant, Bento. Barred from reentering Japan, where her business was originally based, she hopes to plan her upcoming wedding and find a market for the art objects she's stored locally. All hell breaks loose when Rei's cousin Kendall Johnson disappears during the opening dinner...