Author Carolyn V. Hamilton moves around, from her home in Cuenca, Ecuador, South America, Las Vegas, Nevada and Seattle, Washington, and in doing so she absorbs the energy in each location and transforms those experiences into novels. Her `pre-writing' career was in advertising, marketing, graphic design & public relations, service in the US Peace Corps, volunteering in Suriname to teach rural community development in an Amerindian village. Now writing fulltime, she serves as Editor & Chief Adventuress for the digital magazine adventuress-travel-magazine.com, and has published five books, one of which is a memoir of her life in the 1970s while living in Las Vegas - a book that adds credibility to this current novel MAGICIDE in atmosphere, the jargon of Las Vegas, and the allure of the shows there that draw entertainment hungry visitors from all over the world.
Flavor is the magic Carolyn adds to her writing, no matter the subject, but in this novel MAGICIDE she dips right into the secrets of the plot to come with her opening paragraphs: `Her hands tight on the wheel, Larissa Beacham-Jones maneuvered her Mercedes into the valet parking line at Las Vegas' Dunes Park Resort & Casino. With one hand she nervously brushed aside the long blond strand she'd purposefully left separated from her coifed French twist. Her son, Peter, leaned forward in the passenger seat to stare through the windshield upward to where the steel track of the Heldorado Hypercoaster, the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster, dipped down to pass through the porte cochère and startle arriving guests. Three stories higher, the electric marquis flashed, "MAXWELL PERFORMS DEATH-DEFYING ROLLER COASTER ESCAPE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT." "I hate bloody roller coasters," Larissa muttered. Her nervousness made her native British accent more pronounced and haughty. Peter sighed. "I know. Your father forced you to ride that Rolly Polly when you were five." "And when I threw up he laughed. And tonight the world's most famous magician, Maxwell Beacham-Jones--" Sarcasm laced Larissa's pronouncement of her ex-husband's name - "will be handcuffed and chained to the track, with seconds to escape those speeding Hypercoaster cars." Characters have thus been painted instead of just sketched and the core of the story is dangled before our eyes.
The author's synopsis gels her plot well: `Maxwell Beacham-Jones, the world's most famous magician, has reached the zenith of his success. Now he's planned the most daring, outrageous trick of his career. But when Maxwell dies in a Las Vegas roller coaster escape stunt before a national television audience, it's no accident. He was hated by his contemporaries, and all of the suspects are magicians--with plenty of secret motives for murder. MAGICIDE introduces Las Vegas Metro Police detective and single mom, Cheri Raymer, and her vegetarian partner, Tony Pizzarelli. Together they follow a trail through the world of magic and show business that leads to intrigue and shocking revelations. Raymer will face the most devastating personal threat in her career when her teen-aged son, Tom, fascinated by magic, becomes the protégé of a suspected killer.'
MAGICIDE is a most apropos title for this mystery and Carolyn's handing of both the questionable death vs. murder by the magician's detective ex-wife invites us into family secrets and fascinating turns of events that should satisfy even the most critical mystery/thriller lovers. This a very well written, very exciting book. Grady Harp, July 15
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