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ANGEL KILLER by Andrew Mayne

"Innovative detective story"

By: Andrew Mayne

Genres: Suspense | Thriller

Posted: November 2, 2014

Jessica Blackwood has eschewed her family's magical history, choosing to work for the FBI rather than as an illusionist. However, it is her knowledge of magic that makes her invaluable in the FBI's latest case involving a hacker known as the "Warlock". The Warlock has hidden a code that leads to a dead body- but the circumstances surrounding the body seem impossible to explain. As the dead bodies start to mount up, Jessica will have to use every ounce of her knowledge and skills if she is to help stop the Warlock.

I love the twist of a serial killer using the tricks of a magician to stage the deaths! Andrew Mayne takes the seemingly horrific deaths and presents them as a puzzle to be unraveled. Jessica's levelheaded approach to each scene is a sharp contrast to the increasingly wild media hysteria surrounding the Warlock.

ANGEL KILLER is an innovative approach to the detective novel. Yes, we've seen plenty of serial killers chased by FBI agents but the unique staging of each death in ANGEL KILLER, as well as the clever and quite original solutions, make ANGEL KILLER stand out. I'm still not sure I like Jessica Blackwood or her disturbing relationship with the stalker, Damian, but the overall ingenious plotline has me hooked!

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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Angel Killer by Andrew Mayne

Angel Killer

by: Andrew Mayne

Jessica Blackwood #1

Bourbon Street
October 1, 2014
On Sale: September 23, 2014
Featuring: Jessica Blackwood
368 pages
ISBN: 0062348876
EAN: 9780062348876
Kindle: B00HPWXGA2
Trade Size / e-Book

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