Artful Deception

by Naomi Wark

Eight years after graduating from Quantico, FBI agent, Max Landry is home, assigned to the Seattle Bureau office. His probe into the origin of drug-tainted currency leads him to discover an intriguing link to a three-year-old break-in at the Seattle Art Museum. Fueled by his obsessive-compulsive tendencies, he pursues every possible lead. As he delves further into the suspect’s background, Max is increasingly convinced the case involves more than a work of art and the art curator. Risking the ire of the deputy director, Max enlists the assistance of an investigative reporter, who travels to Italy to monitor the suspects during their tour of art museums. With the director skeptical about the FBI’s involvement in the case, Max is ordered to resolve the investigation within two weeks. The situation escalates when the primary suspect is apprehended, revealing a surprising new individual linked to a significant global drug trafficking operation. Will Max manage to resolve the case before time runs out?

312 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 15, 2025

About the author

Naomi Wark lives on Camano Island, in Northwest Washington, a move that coincided with retirement. She joined the Skagit Valley Writer’s League and focused her energy on completing a novel started years earlier. Wildflowers in Winter is her first novel. First released in 2017, a second edition was released in 2020 and is recommended by Alzauthors.
Naomi's second novel, Songs of Spring, a prequel to Wildflowers in Winter, is a historic fiction released in March 2023. Songs of Spring, which takes place in Seattle and the surrounding Puget Sound region beginning in 1902 until the mid-1920s. Both books draw inspiration from diaries and memories left behind by her husband’s grandmother.
When she is not writing, Naomi enjoys gardening, long walks, reading, and spending time with family. Besides her participation in the Skagit Valley Writer’s League, and Pacific Northwest Writers Association. Naomi is a volunteer and on the Board for the Stanwood Camano Food Bank and Camano Island Library Friends.