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The Keiko Ito Mystery Series continues

The Unsigned Falcon

Book Two of the Keiko Ito Mystery Series — coming Spring 2027

Six months after the Joseon investigation, the National Art Center Tokyo is preparing a landmark retrospective of the Meiji master Akiyama Renzan. But a routine infrared scan of his most famous folding screen reveals a quiet, unsettling anomaly: a hand beneath the paint that should not be there.

Before the scan can be cataloged, a member of Keiko’s own team is found dead at the foot of a concrete stairwell. The digital file vanishes from the database, and the administration is quick to label the fall a tragic accident.

Keiko’s records say otherwise. And Keiko’s records have never once needed correcting.

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Book One: The Joseon Retrospective

Keiko Ito has spent nineteen years as a registrar. She does not investigate crimes. She reconciles records. Then a Korean provenance researcher is found dead in a basement service corridor, having left a seven-line annotation, handwritten in Korean, on page four of Keiko’s own condition report.

Each Keiko Ito novel tells a complete case — but the Joseon investigation is where it starts. October 2026.

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