Black Fall
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"Enthralling . . . . The author, a professional magician, makes the impossible seem probable in this twisty, clever treat." —Publishers Weekly
In Black Fall, the third book in the ITW Award-nominated mystery series, magician-turned-FBI agent Jessica Blackwood investigates a series of seemingly unrelated, but equally bizarre and sinister, crimes that lead her to the Colorado desert and a town that has, simply, disappeared.
With two big cases under her belt, FBI Agent Jessica Blackwood is learning to embrace her unconventional past as the rising star in a family dynasty of illusionists. Her talent and experience endow her with a unique understanding of the power and potential of deception, and a gift for knowing when things are not always as they appear to be. Once resenting her eccentric grandfather, a brilliant magician in his own right, Jessica now sees him as a mentor and regularly seeks his advice about her work.
But Jessica's routine surveillance operation becomes a fight for survival when a disturbed young woman, clutching a baby, shows up at the stake-out location and threatens to kill her child. On the same day, an hour after a severe earthquake rocks the eastern seaboard, a strange video goes viral. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Devon has been dead for eight years, yet here he is on camera, predicting the location and date of the earthquake. Jessica is put on the case by her boss, Dr. Ailes, but when Detective Aileen Lewis reports that they've found a Jane Doe who matches her description of her attacker, she's torn between professional duty and a personal desire to find out who the woman was, and why she was killed.
The investigations pull her in very different directions—until they start to converge, leading Jessica to confront something darker, and more powerful, than anyone expected. Something so twisted, only one person could be behind it...the Warlock.
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Andrew Mayne. (2017). Black Fall. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Andrew Mayne. 2017. Black Fall. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Andrew Mayne, Black Fall. HarperCollins, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Andrew Mayne. Black Fall. HarperCollins, 2017.
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"Enthralling . . . . The author, a professional magician, makes the impossible seem probable in this twisty, clever treat." —Publishers Weekly
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With two big cases under her belt, FBI Agent Jessica Blackwood is learning to embrace her unconventional past as the rising star in a family dynasty of illusionists. Her talent and experience endow her with a unique understanding of the power and potential of deception, and a gift for knowing when things are not always as they appear to be. Once resenting her eccentric grandfather, a brilliant magician in his own right, Jessica now sees him as a mentor and regularly seeks his advice about her work.
But Jessica's routine surveillance operation becomes a fight for survival when a disturbed young woman, clutching a baby, shows up at the stake-out location and threatens to kill her child. On the same day, an hour after a severe earthquake rocks the eastern seaboard, a strange video goes viral. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Devon has been dead for eight years, yet here he is on camera, predicting the location and date of the earthquake. Jessica is put on the case by her boss, Dr. Ailes, but when Detective Aileen Lewis reports that they've found a Jane Doe who matches her description of her attacker, she's torn between professional duty and a personal desire to find out who the woman was, and why she was killed.
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"Enthralling . . . The author, a professional magician, makes the impossible seem probable in this twisty, clever treat." — Publishers Weekly
"Delivers more fast-paced entertainment." — Booklist
Praise for Name of the Devil: "Science supersedes the supernatural in this action-packed follow-up.... With snappy prose and a smart protagonist, this is an adrenaline-fueled procedural with an unusual twist. Great reading." — Booklist (starred review)
"In Mayne's exciting second Jessica Blackwood novel, the cunning FBI special agent applies her magician training to investigating a bizarre explosion.... A fast-moving thriller in which illusions are weapons for both good and evil." — Publishers Weekly
Praise for Angel Killer: "Mayne, the star of the A&E show Don't Trust Andrew Mayne, combines magic and mayhem in this delightful beginning to a new series.... Readers will look forward to Jessica's future adventures." — Publishers Weekly
"A magical debut that mixes charismatic characters, an intriguing premise and a dash of illusionists' secrets to entertain readers and leave them eager for the next act." — Kirkus Reviews
"Professional illusionist Mayne introduces a fresh angle to serial-killer hunting.... Mayne forgoes gimmicks, instead dissecting illusions with human behavior, math, and science without losing sight of the story's big picture." — Booklist
"Looking for a dark page turner that will keep you guessing until the very end? Jessica Blackwood is your girl!" — WhyGirlsAreWeird.com
"Entertainment at its finest! Magic and mystery blend together to showcase one heck of an intriguing plotline.... The sort of book you just can't put down and yet you regret once that last page is turned." — Fresh Fiction
"Magic and murder make a spectacular entrance in Angel Killer, an intricate thriller with techno overtones written by illusionist Andrew Mayne.... Addictive." — BookPage
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FBI agent Jessica Blackwood is pulled off a serial-killer case after she's attacked by a knife-wielding woman carrying a kidnapped infant. But Blackwood, with her keen instincts and background in illusionism, is needed for something bigger. Hours after an earthquake rocks Washington, D.C., a video is released of a scientist predicting the eventeasy enough to do, after the fact, except that the man making the prediction has been dead for eight years. When the same man predicts, in another video, a deadly natural disaster in a particular region in Bolivia, and a flood comes that kills hundreds, Blackwood and colleagues look for a group that is somehow causing, not just predicting, such catastrophies. In the midst of severe civil unrestcaused by the predictions, police shootings in D.C., and power blackouts along the East CoastBlackwood must not only look for a suspicious cult, but also watch her back, as repeated attempts are made on her life. The third Jessica Blackwood novel (after Name of the Devil, 2015) delivers more fast-paced entertainment, unsettling despite some plausibility issues, from magician-author Mayne.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)
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With two big cases under her belt, FBI Agent Jessica Blackwood is learning to embrace her unconventional past as the rising star in a family dynasty of illusionists. Her talent and experience endow her with a unique understanding of the power and potential of deception, and a gift for knowing when things are not always as they appear to be. Once resenting her eccentric grandfather, a brilliant magician in his own right, Jessica now sees him as a mentor and regularly seeks his advice about her work.
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