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    Conundrum

    By Susan Cory

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    "An exciting, engrossing tale of greed, deceit and
    murder" THE KIRKUS REVIEW
    When a Harvard Architecture School superstar plunges off the balcony at a graduation party, the police see an accident, not foul play. But fellow-student Iris Reid knows that any jealous member of the ruling clique would have relished pushing him off. Twenty years later, a reunion is luring the same cast of characters back to Cambridge. The opening night dinner is being held in a Modernist house that Iris has designed. She hopes to untangle the events that led to her friend's death. But the murderer has other plans. When a long-ago boyfriend turns up dead the night of the
    dinner, all the incriminating evidence points to Iris. What began as an attempt to avenge her old friend turns into a desperate race to avoid being framed by the clever killer—a killer capable of twisting the truth into a bloody conundrum.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSusan Cory
    Release dateMar 30, 2012
    ISBN9780985370220
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    Susan Cory

    I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts and work as a residential architect. I grew up in New Jersey devouring mysteries. I loved seeing order restored by ingenious sleuths. But the visual arts were my medium of expression. As an Art major at Dartmouth, I imagined that designing buildings was just a larger-scaled version of creating sculpture. I soon discovered that it was far different from working on my own, paring down a big hunk of wood while dressed in plaid shirts and living in an attic. In fact, at graduate school at Harvard's G.S.D., I found a setting—insecurity and ego riding a particle accelerator of Design Obsession—just ripe for murder. I couldn't understand why there were no mysteries about architects and architecture students doing each other in. The mystery world is littered with sleuths who are cops, P.I.s, countless lawyers, bookstore owners, caterers, ministers—every profession but my own. Aren't we problem solvers? Don't we find ourselves deeply enmeshed in other people's lives? Don't we passionately defend our beliefs? Clearly the architecture world has been ignored as a mystery setting, and architects have been neglected as sleuths and, yes, murderers. So in I blundered, forgetting that I was a "Vizzie", not a "Verbie". Several years were spent getting up to speed with, you know, the using-words-thing. Conundrum is an ode to my profession and all the deviously clever practitioners within it. The first ode. Iris Reid will get tossed into any number of tight spots as the series progresses.

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