A life drawing class at the Brooklyn Community Arts School ends in tragedy when John Sunderland, the handsome male model, doesn't get up from his position on stage. He's been shot through the head with a bolt from a crossbow. An impossible shot through an unbroken window. And why didn't any of the attending would-be artists see a thing?Emily Stone, who was assisting the drawing class, and feels responsible for what happened to John, is soon asked by the young man's sister to solve what appears to be the perfect crime. The only problem is: Emily is a budding artist herself, and a temp. Solving crime is not what she does. When the police prove baffled, though, she reluctantly accepts to take on this mysterious case, and soon discovers that John Sunderland was not who he said he was...