Illusionist: Volume 5

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 dont see or hear a thing. Thats 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 dont follow orders, your daughter will die. Then, he pans the camera to prove access to her college dorm room. McPherson discovers that Carmine Fiore, Gambinos second in command, covets his boss' role and is staging a coup. As Gambinos soldiers traffic drugs, weapons, and humans, Fiore plants incriminating evidence against the notorious Sureos gang. Can McPherson leverage that knowledge for a temporary truce and the gangs help? The writers in residencea former NASCAR driver, a professional triathlete, an architect turned house flipper, and a world-renowned magician who may not be who she appears to beband together with McPherson to create the illusion of a lifetime.