The Magician Murders Art of Murder 3

Jason West, a special agent with the FBI's Art Crime Team, is recovering from a hit-and-run accident at the Wyoming home of Sam Kennedy, who heads the Behavioral Analysis Unit. His rest is cut short when he is asked to consult on a theft: a priceless collection of vintage magic posters has vanished.

Before he can make headway, the collector who owned the posters is found murdered in a National Forest. The dead man performed part-time as the Kubla Khanjurer, a magician widely resented for exposing the closely guarded secrets of professional illusionists.

That history points to an obvious answer, a revenge killing by someone he betrayed. Jason is not convinced. An earlier suspicious death at Top Hat White Rabbit, a trendy magic club, begins to look connected, and he suspects both deaths belong to a larger and darker pattern.

This is the third book in the Art of Murder series. It is a mystery with an art-crime angle and a stage-magic setting, and it centres on a male investigator who is working from a sickbed as much as from the field. The puzzle builds from a theft to a murder to a possible series of killings.