In this decadent mystery by one of the genre's "most exciting new writers" a London magician balances murder and misdirection ( New York Times Book Review ). William Wilson would love to believe he's Soho's master prestidigitator. As the opening act for strippers, he's mostly an old-school hack whose low-demand career has tanked. Then his agent books him into a dreary bordello to perform at a retirement party. Who's William to say no? For a man whose life has become a series of sad, bad mistakes, saying yes is a big one. His next is hooking up with a fatally sexy showgirl named Sylvie. Her connections to the underworld might have something to do with a grisly double murder, and a mysterious photograph entrusted to William. It's also made him a hunted man. As he and Sylvie flee to Germany, William is finding it harder to distinguish between real life-and-death threats and what is an ingenious, if nightmarish, sleight-of-hand. "As irresistible mystery" ( Library Journal ) by a CWA Award-winning "literary escape artist of the highest rank" ( Chicago Tribune ), The Bullet Trick scours the seediest backrooms, backstreets, and backstages—from Glasgow dives to Berlin cabarets—for a thriller that " satisfies like a well-executed magic trick, one that, for this reader . . . offered the thrill of surprise" ( San Francisco Chronicle ).