When a mysterious artist vanishes from her studio, architect Iris Reid is pulled into a desperate search. The hunt for the missing woman takes a chilling turn: the more Iris discovers, the less about Luna, the artist, seems real. Her past, her name, her ties—all carefully constructed lies. Iris must peel back layers of deception to expose dangerous truths in the underworld of art forgery, mob connections, and kidnapping. But a ruthless adversary is determined to keep these secrets buried. Unless Iris can unravel the mystery of Luna’s life lived in the shadows, a single brushstroke could be the difference between life and death. Susan Cory was an award-winning residential architect in Cambridge, Ma. before she retired to write mysteries full time. She earned a brown belt in karate and visited 100 countries along the way.Her mystery series, beginning with Conundrum, features Iris Reid, also a Cambridge architect, as an amateur sleuth trying to uncover a murderer at her Harvard reunion. Susan found inspiration for starting this series at her own 20th architecture school reunion, not that anyone was killed then. That she knows of. Susan always wondered why there were no architect sleuths in the mysteries she read. Aren't architects problem solvers? Don't they get deeply enmeshed in people's lives? She set out to correct this oversight.When Susan is not working away on the next book in the series, she's enjoying life in the Boston area with her architect husband and bossy Bernadoodle. Visit her website: www.susancory.com