Who would have ever thought of a novel with a female law enforcement officer who came from a family of famous magicians? Jessica Blackwood use to be a magician herself after growing up and traveling with her father and grandfather watching them perform magic shows themselves. At some point in her life she decided to become a police officer and is now using what she knows to help the FBI with a case that only her expertise can help expose the tricks.

Jessica is not the only one that knows about magic. He is called the Warlock and has managed crimes that seem impossible to conceive. It starts with the findings of a girl, Chloe McDonald who looks like she crawled from her grave that she has been resting in for two years. There are more unexplainable events that take place all with the Warlock's signature mystery behind them and the FBI needs Jessica's magic knowledge to get to the bottom of it.

ANGEL KILLER by Andrew Mayne and it is amazing. I love how he took what he knows and made a story that kept me wondering until the end. Though even at the end, I am still wondering... Wondering if he will continue the story from here? I even love the way it ended! There is a type of closure that works perfectly and that one will not see coming. I do not like books that keep me hanging, which Andrew Mayne's novel did not do. Instead he left me mystified in the most magical way!

I hope ANGEL KILLER is the start of a new series as Andrew Mayne has a great beginning with such new, fresh characters that keep you engaged throughout the whole novel. The main character, Jessica Blackwood, is a new vibrant law enforcement officer like no other mystery novel has ever had. Another plus is the little bit of magical secrets he gives without spoiling the world of magic to those of us who have always wondered. In a way, Andrew Mayne's novel, ANGEL KILLER is like that too. The mystery is solved in a way, but the magic is still there.

Book Summary

In this self-published bestselling e-book by a real illusionist—the first thriller in a sensational series—now available in paperback, FBI agent Jessica Blackwood believes she has successfully left her complicated life as a gifted magician behind her . . . until a killer with seemingly supernatural powers puts her talents to the ultimate test.

A mysterious hacker, who identifies himself only as “Warlock,” brings down the FBI’s website and posts a code in its place. It hides the GPS coordinates of a Michigan cemetery, where a dead girl is discovered rising from the ground . . . as if she tried to crawl out of her own grave.

Born into a dynasty of illusionists, Jessica Blackwood is destined to become its next star—until she turns her back on her troubled family, and her legacy, to begin a new life in law enforcement. But FBI consultant Dr. Jeffrey Ailes’s discovery of an old copy of Magician Magazine will turn Jessica’s carefully constructed world upside down. Faced with a crime that appears beyond explanation, Ailes has nothing to lose—and everything to gain—by taking a chance on an agent raised in a world devoted to seemingly achieving the impossible.

The body in the cemetery is only the first in the Warlock’s series of dark miracles. Thrust into the media spotlight, with time ticking away until the next crime, can Jessica confront her past to embrace her gifts and stop a depraved killer?

If she can’t, she may become his next victim.

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