When smart and gutsy architect, Iris Reid, gets involved with a handsome visiting starchitect at Harvard, she gets drawn into the dark world surrounding a missing Cambridge schoolgirl.
Like her sleuth, Susan Cory is an award-winning architect practicing out of her turreted office. Like Iris, she has a brown belt in Karate. She lives in Cambridge, Ma. with her architect husband and bossy mutt, not a Basset hound.