A review by omnibozo22
The Last Illusion, by Rhys Bowen

1.0

Bowen has produced one of the worst magician in trouble mysteries I have ever read. I'm guessing that Bowen is British, though I don't care enough to check. While this story takes place in NYC, and has an Irish immigrant protagonist, Bowen keeps slipping into British language, even when the speaker is American. Irritating. Then, there are the continual absurd things he has Houdini doing. The
"Historical Note" at the end makes it clear that he has only read one book about Houdini, and didn't pay attention to most of it. He also screws up magic history pretty thoroughly.