Acknowledgments
As always, you wouldn’t be holding this book in your hands if not for my agent, Elisabeth Weed, at the Book Group and my editor, Shana Drehs, at Sourcebooks, both true powerhouses. So grateful to you both for your guidance, support, encouragement, and enthusiasm.
Publishing a book takes a village, and the Sourcebooks village is firing on all cylinders (to mix metaphors just a touch). My thanks to Dominique Raccah, Heather VenHuizen, Stephanie Rocha, Jessica Thelander, Margaret Coffee, Valerie Pierce, Kirsten Wenum, Molly Waxman, Caitlin Lawler, Chelsea McGuckin, Sabrina Baskey, and Carolyn Lesnick for all their hard work, transforming my raw words into this beautiful book and getting it into the hands of readers.
I’m also grateful to Hallie Schaeffer at the Book Group, the team at Tessera Editorial, Jenny Meyer for handling my foreign rights, Michelle Weiner and the team at CAA, intern extraordinaire Elizabeth Sander, and more booksellers, librarians, and Bookstagrammers than I have space to include here.
The company of fellow authors on this journey makes all the madness worth it. More writers than I can name here bring joy to my life; those who made particularly essential contributions to this novel and my mental well-being while writing it include Shelley Nolden, who always holds my feet to the fire; Therese Walsh and the incredible community of Writer Unboxed; Marie Benedict, Kristina McMorris, and Allison Pataki whose gracious blurbs and generous cheerleading are so appreciated; the members of the Fiction Writers’ Co-Op, who tell it like it is; and my fellow historical novelists from the Historical Novel Society, who make every time and place feel like home.
About the Author
Raised in the Midwest, Greer Macallister is a novelist, poet, short story writer, and playwright who earned her MFA in creative writing from American University. Her debut novel, The Magician’s Lie, was a USA Today bestseller, an Indie Next pick, and a Target Book Club selection. Her novels Girl in Disguise and Woman 99 were inspired by pioneering nineteenth-century Pinkerton agent Kate Warne and intrepid journalist Nellie Bly, respectively. A regular contributor to Writer Unboxed and the Chicago Review of Books, Macallister lives with her family in Washington, DC.
The Magician’s Lie
An immersive story of a notorious illusionist whose troubles have become all too real.
The Amazing Arden saws a man in half on stage every night, and the country loves her for it. But, one night, when she switches her saw for a fire ax, the crowds are left wondering if it was a new trick or a very real murder. When her husband is found dead beneath the stage, the answer seems clear.
Despite her best attempts to flee, Arden finds herself in a one-room police station with a young officer desperate to know the truth. Even handcuffed and alone, Arden is far from powerless—and what she reveals is spellbinding. Over the course of one eerie night, the magician will have to pull off one final act—this time with her own life at stake.
“A spellbinding tale… Macallister, like the Amazing Arden, mesmerizes her audience.”
—Washington Post
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Girl in Disguise
For the first female Pinkerton detective, respect is hard to come by, but danger is everywhere.
In the tumultuous years of the Civil War, the streets of Chicago offer a widow mostly danger and ruin—unless that widow is Kate Warne. As an undercover Pinkerton detective, Kate is able to infiltrate the seedy side of the city in disguises that her fellow spies just can’t manage. She’s a seductress, an exotic foreign medium, a rich train passenger—all depending on the day and the robber, thief, or murderer she’s been assigned to nab.
But is it only her detective work that makes her a daring spy and a clever liar? Or is the real disguise the good girl she always thought she was? As the Civil War marches closer, Kate takes on her most pressing job ever. The nation’s future is at risk, and she’s no longer sure where her disguise ends and the very real danger begins.
“A fast-paced, lively tale of intrigue and deception, with a heroine at its center so appealingly complicated that she leaps off the page”
—Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train
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Woman 99
A vivid story about a young woman whose quest to save her sister risks her sanity, her safety, and her life.
When Charlotte Smith’s wealthy parents commit her beloved sister, Phoebe, to the infamous Goldengrove Asylum, Charlotte knows there’s more to the story than madness. She surrenders herself to the insane asylum, surrendering her real identity as a privileged young lady of San Francisco society to become a nameless inmate, Woman 99.
The longer she stays, the more she realizes that many of the women of Goldengrove Asylum aren’t insane, merely inconvenient—and her search for the truth threatens to dig up secrets that some very powerful people would do anything to keep.
“Woman 99 is a gorgeous ode to the power of female courage.”
—Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network
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