Benjamin Stevenson for Hornsby Library

Ernest Cunningham is back. This time backstage at the show of world famous magician Rylan Blaze, whose benefactor has just been murdered. The suspects are all professional tricksters and masters of the art of misdirection.

The magician, the assistant, the executive, the hypnotist, the twin, the counsellor and the stagehand.

The clues are even more abstract. If he can see through the illusions, he knows he can solve it.
After all, a good murder is just like a magic trick, isn’t it?

Benjamin Stevenson is an award-winning stand-up comedian and USA Today best-selling author. He is the author of the globally popular ‘Ernest Cunningham Mysteries’, including Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone, which is currently being adapted into a major HBO TV series.

He will be in conversation with Dinuka McKenzie, an Australian writer and the author of the Detective Kate Miles crime series, The Torrent, Taken and Tipping Point.