“On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art now worth over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist with her own scandalous past, is about to discover that there's more to this crime than meets the eye.”

B.A. Shapiro is the author of six novels, four screenplays, and one non-fiction book. In her previous career incarnations, she directed research projects for a residential substance abuse facility, worked as a systems analyst/statistician, headed the Boston office of a software development firm, and served as an adjunct professor teaching sociology at Tufts University and creative writing at Northeastern University.

After raising two children and being a prolific writer, she settled in Boston with her husband and her dog. Yes, she is working on yet another novel. But she has no plans to raise any more children.