Trick of the Eye — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

For Faith Cromwell, trompe l'oeil artist, it is the commission of a lifetime: painting the famed ballroom of an opulent Long Island estate. But her new patron has a macabre fixation on a daughter brutally murdered in the house a decade earlier -- one so intense that it jeopardizes Faith's own peace of mind. And as she pieces together the details of the grisly crime that shadows the house, Faith slowly discovers that she herself plays the starring role in a bizarre and dangerous charade.