Anna’s Light is an art theft novel.
Barnett Newman's Voice of Fire, eighteen feet tall, eight feet wide, the subject of the greatest art scandal in Canadian history, has been stolen from the National Gallery of Canada. Scott Burgess, a writer for the Globe and Mail, thinks he knows who is responsible. Alex Pritchard, one of Scott's oldest friends, has deleted his social network accounts, has terminated his lease, has been fired from his job as an arts writer, and is nowhere to be found. His obsession with difficult art, and his own history of creating it, have ignited his friend's suspicions. Anna Gunn, a young and promising sculptor, knows Alex better than anyone. Perhaps well enough to find him. Corporal Weaver, an RCMP officer, has just been handed a very thin and very unpopular case file.