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With sparkling wit, charming characters, and historic detail, multiple award winner Rhys Bowen brings early-twentieth-century New York City and the fantastic performers of the time vividly to life in The Last Illusion.

Irish immigrant and PI Molly Murphy is thrilled to have a ticket to the theater to see a trio of illusionists that are all the rage. Indeed, headlining is Harry Houdini, the most sensational of them all; he

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A New York novelist in search of a story becomes involved in the mystery of who stole the large brass cross that hung behind the altar of St. Timothy's Episcopal church in Manhattan and installed it on the roof of the Synagogue for Evolutionary Judaism on the Upper West Side.

The bittersweet story of friendship and love in an apartment building on New York's Upper East Side.

"The Reservoir follows an unexceptional man in an exceptional time. We see our present-day pandemic world and New York City through the eyes of a former Wall Street veteran, Ridley, as he looks back upon his life in his enforced quarantine solitude, wondering what it all means and who he really is. Sitting and brooding night after night, gazing out his huge picture window high above the Central Park Reservoir, Ridley spots a flashing light in an apartment...