{"product_id":"9781250054302","title":"The Impersonator : A Mystery","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Impersonator\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Mary Miley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1917, Jessie Carr, fourteen years old and sole heiress to her family's vast fortune, disappeared without a trace. Now, years later, her uncle Oliver Beckett thinks he's found her: a young actress in a vaudeville playhouse is a dead ringer for his missing niece. But when Oliver confronts the girl, he learns he's wrong. Orphaned young, Leah Randall has been acting since she was a toddler.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOliver, never one to miss an opportunity, makes a proposition—with his coaching, Leah can impersonate Jessie, claim the fortune, and split it with him. The role of a lifetime, he says. A one-way ticket to Sing Sing, she hears. But when she's let go from her job, Oliver's offer looks a lot more appealing. Leah agrees to the con, but secretly promises herself to try and find out what happened to the real Jessie. There's only one problem: Leah's act won't fool the one person who knows the truth about Jessie's disappearance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet against a Prohibition-era backdrop of speakeasies and vaudeville houses, Mary Miley's Minotaur Books\/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition winner \u003ci\u003eThe Impersonator\u003c\/i\u003e will delight readers with its elaborate mystery and lively prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Miley shows a deft touch and sets a blistering pace in her debut novel. Leah Randall\/Jessie Carr leaps off the pages in this \"Roaring Twenties\" period piece that drips with bathtub gin, truck-size cars, outsize personalities, money, high stakes and enough twists, turns and sleights of hand to keep one reading late into the night...Simply put, this book is FUN.” —\u003ci\u003eDAVID BALDACCI\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mary Miley has delivered a tale that lures us into the dangerous underworld of Prohibition: rum smugglers, bootleggers, and the glamorous lost realm of vaudeville...a realm so real that we can almost smell the greasepaint. \u003ci\u003eThe Impersonator\u003c\/i\u003e is an exciting debut!” —\u003ci\u003eKATHERINE NEVILLE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250054302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Minotaur Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40642224390350,"sku":"9781250054302","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_76488938-32e6-4621-818f-63392c9ad1a5.jpg?v=1639101988","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250054302","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}