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An ex-magician-turned-amateur-detective hunts for a missing pregnant woman in this tale of New Orleans noir... Rusty Diamond abandoned the Crescent City years ago to pursue fame in Las Vegas, leaving Marceline Lavalle with a broken heart. Now Rusty has finally come back to New Orleansbut no one has seen Marceline for days. Five months pregnant, Marceline's vanished without a trace, and her estranged boyfriend, a casino boss with criminal ties and a hair-trigger temper, claims no knowledge of her whereabouts. With the police not yet ready to declare foul play, Rusty launches his own investigation. The search for Marceline will take Rusty into dark corners far from the neon lights of Bourbon Street, where enormous profit can be made from human misery and desperate people hunt on the fringes. The journey will force him to confront the mistakes of his past, and offer him a shot at redemptionif he doesn't wind up at the bottom of a bayou first... ';I wanted to take a bite out of Blind Shuffle before breakfast but ended up reading straight through lunch. I finished it on a plane to Tijuana. This was my first Rusty Diamond novel... it won't be my last. Dig in.' Patrick Hasburgh, creator of 21 Jump Street

Austin Williams concludes his Rusty Diamond trilogy, perfect for readers of George Pelecanos, by sending Rusty back to where everything fell apart, Las Vegas.

A street magician needs more than sleight-of-hand to survive in this dark, edgy crime thriller... After years of chasing fame and hedonistic excess in the bright lights of Las Vegas, Rusty ';The Raven' Diamond has returned home to Ocean City, Maryland, to piece his life back together. When he finds himself an innocent suspect in his landlord's brutal murder, Rusty abandons all hope of maintaining a tranquil existence. Acting on impulse, he digs into the investigation just enough to anger both the police and a local drug cartel. As the case grows more complex, claiming new victims and inciting widespread panic, Rusty feels galvanized by the adrenaline he's been missing for too long. But his newfound excitement threatens to become an addiction, leading him headfirst into an underworld he's been desperately trying to escape... This is the first in the series featuring an illusionist-turned-sleuth by the author of The Platinum Loop, which was praised by Publishers Weekly as ';pulp fun at its best.'