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THE NIGHT CIRCUS meets THE PEAKY BLINDERS in Lee Kelly's new crossover fantasy novel.

Magic is powerful, dangerous and addictive - and after passage of the 18th Amendment, it is finally illegal.
It's 1926 in Washington, DC, and while Anti-Sorcery activists have achievedthe Prohibition of sorcery, the city's magic underworld is booming.Sorcerers cast illusions to aid mobsters' crime sprees. Smugglersfunnel magic contraband in from overseas. Gangs have established secret performance venues where patrons can lose themselves in magic, and take a mind-bending, intoxicating elixir known as the sorcerer's shine.

Joan Kendrick, a young sorcerer from Norfolk County, Virginia accepts anoffer to work for DC's most notorious crime syndicate, the Shaw Gang,when her family's home is repossessed. Alex Danfrey, a first-yearFederal Prohibition Unit trainee with a complicated past and talents ofhis own, becomes tapped to go undercover and infiltrate the Shaws. 

Through different paths, Joan and Alex tread deep into the violent, dangerousworld of criminal magic - and when their paths cross at the Shaws'performance venue, despite their orders, and despite themselves, Joanand Alex become enchanted with one another. But when gang alliancesbegin to shift, the two sorcerers are forced to question their ultimateallegiances and motivations. And soon, Joan and Alex find themselvespitted against each other in a treacherous, heady game of cat-and-mouse.

A CRIMINAL MAGIC casts a spell of magic, high stakes and intrigue against the backdrop of a very different Roaring Twenties. Read Online Book A Criminal Magic by Lee Kelly Full Free

Review :

This is a solid, suspenseful, Prohibition-era crime story, with one rather large twist: in this version of the U.S., it's not liquor that's been made illegal, it's magic. . . . This is a clever and very imaginative variant on a tried-and-true theme. (Booklist)

"This urban fantasy, always electric, reads like jazz itself."  (Publisher's Weekly)

"Kelly's enchanting novel takes place during the roaring 20s and is slightly reminiscent of The Night Circus with a splash of The Great Gatsby.  Readers will be enamored by this sci-fi, magical, New Adult story which is guaranteed to provoke bursts of excitement and surges in ones imagination thanks to the creative and descriptive non-stop flow throughout."  (RT Book Reviews)

"A Criminal Magic is a solid, well-written tale . . . but it's the ending that is going to have everyone talking.  The final plot twist is a punch in the gut."  (Tor.com)

"It sucks you in and doesn't let go." (SF Signal)

"This urban fantasy, always electric, reads like jazz itself." (Publishers Weekly)

"Reminiscent of The Night Circus with a splash of The Great Gatsby." (Romantic Times)

"Well-crafted and delightfully taut, A Criminal Magic is a wonderful piece of spellwork." (V.E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of A Darker Shade of Magic)

"A Criminal Magic is a smart, absorbing read, with a deft take on Prohibition, engaging characters, and an utterly believable and fantastic version of magic that is as splendid as it is dangerous." (Kate Elliott, author of The Spiritwalker trilogy)

"This is a solid, suspenseful, Prohibition-era crime story...a clever and very imaginative variant on a tried-and-true theme." (Booklist)


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