Shell Game — Carol O'Connell

On live television, a man dies during the re-creation of a legendary magic trick in Central Park. Millions of New Yorkers believe it was an accident-but two people know it was not. One is an aged magician in a private hospital in the northern corner of the state. The other is Kathleen Mallory. She thinks that the death was simply too dramatic, too gruesomely spectacular, to be accidental. And hiding behind the smoke and mirrors is a ruthless killer who will soon strike again...