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For fans of Louise Penny and Robert Dugoni, Illusionist is a contemporary crime thriller where PI McPherson must choose between killing an author at a writing retreat in the Pacific Northwest or letting a college student die. When an illusionist joins the Pines & Quill writing retreat, one of the owners vanishes without a trace in the middle of everyone, but the surrounding would-be witnesses don�t see or hear a thing. That�s when crime boss Georgio Gambino makes a checkmate move against his nemesis, Sean McPherson. He forces a writer in residence to kill another writer and frame McPherson. In a video call, Gambino warns the writer, �If you don�t follow orders, your daughter will die.� Then, he pans the camera to prove access to her college dorm room. McPherson discovers that Carmine Fiore, Gambino�s second in command, covets his boss role and is staging a coup. As Gambino�s soldiers traffic drugs, weapons, and humans, Fiore plants incriminating evidence against the notorious Sure�os gang. Can McPherson leverage that knowledge for a temporary truce and the gang�s help? The writers in residence�a former NASCAR driver, a professional triathlete, an architect turned house flipper, and a world-renowned magician who may not be who she appears to be�band together with McPherson to create the illusion of a lifetime. (less)

For fans of Louise Penny and Robert Dugoni, Illusionist is a contemporary crime thriller where PI McPherson must choose between killing an author at a writing retreat in the Pacific Northwest or letting a college student die. When an (…more)