Pretty Little Box

At first glance, the miniature book of hours with gilt-edged pages and the beautiful box that contains it look too small to be of any real consequence – which is exactly why the woman, hardly a thief in her day-to-day life, doesn''t think twice about pocketing the package when it catches her eye at the local antiquarian bookshop.

But this minor transgression sets in motion a series of events, each...