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Illusion of Murder

Illusion of Murder

Ashworth, Cordelia

Paperback

Series: Mistress of Illusion

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798187193073
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 14 2026
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Someone is committing the impossible - fourteen times, once a day, in fourteen days.

Each crime is copied from a case in Cordelia Kestrel's own casebook: a sealed strongroom, a vault opened without force, a dispatch box photographed mid-transit under armed guard. The press calls him the Conductor. Every solution he stages tightens a noose around the one detective who might catch him - until Kestrel is arrested, ruined, and abandoned by the client who made her famous.

Her chronicler, Sam Okafor, watches the frame close from the inside, because the crimes aren't just copying Kestrel's cases. They're copying his book - pages nobody but three people alive have ever read.

To survive, Kestrel must do the one thing a fair-play detective never does: let the world believe she's finished, in public, on the record, while a hostage's life ticks down to a courtroom deadline she can't move.

Every clue is on the page. Every crime has a real answer. And the Conductor's final trick depends on one belief he's certain he's already broken: that Cordelia Kestrel can be made to lie.

Illusion of Murder is a fourteen-day fair-play mystery-thriller for readers who want to solve it themselves - and readers who don't see the ending coming until it's already happened.

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