The Ambitious Card: (An Eli Marks Mystery Book 1) (The Eli Marks Mysteries)

Magician Eli Marks is the top suspect in a series of murders.His greatest trick? Not becoming the next victim.Psychics are being murdered and all the clues point to magician Eli Marks: one of his playing cards keeps turning up at every crime scene.What begins as a simple Halloween magic show turns into a deadly cat-and-mouse encounter as the body count rises while Eli frantically attempts to clear his name.It doesn't help that his ex-wife's new husband is the lead Homicide Detective on the case.Or that Eli appears to be the only thread tying all the murders together.Then things get really complicated when romance blooms with a beautiful psychic who may—or may not—hold the final clue to this murderous mystery.Eli can't help but be drawn to her, even though falling in love in the midst of a murder spree is never a good idea.As all the pieces of this deadly puzzle begin to fall into place, Eli must use every trick he knows to uncover the true killer … before he becomes the final victim.