Shell Game

Shell Game

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by Carol O’Connell

Kathleen Mallory series #5

published 1999

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Oliver Tree spent years working out the solution to the “Lost Illusion”, and was poised to give a death-defying performance at a Manhattan magic festival. Before an audience and TV cameras, four arrows were aimed at him – with fatal consequences. Detective Sgt Kathy Mallory realizes this is murder.

When a legendary magic trick goes horribly awry on national TV, detective Kathleen Mallory knows the gruesome death won’t be the last. For misdirection is the heart of all magic-and perfect crimes.

Detective Kathy Mallory. New York’s darkest. You only underestimate her once.

A cop who knows there is no magic in the world

At a sell-out festival of magicians in Manhattan, in front of a live audience and eight million television viewers, a death-defying trick goes tragically wrong.

NYPD detective Kathy Mallory has learned the hard way that things are rarely what they seem. But she is the only cop who believes the death is not an accident.

Welcome to the darker side of NYPD.

Hiding behind the smoke and mirrors is a ruthless killer who will soon strike again.