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THE IMPERSONATOR By Mary Miley Read by Tavia Gilbert
Set against a Prohibition-era backdrop of speakeasies and vaudeville houses, Mary Miley’s award-winning first novel will delight readers with its elaborate mystery and lively prose.
“Miley shows a deft touch and sets a blistering pace…This book is FUN.” —David Baldacci
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“The Impersonator is an exciting debut that Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
climaxes at the very tip of the rockbound
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coast of the Pacific Northwest, in a literal
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cliffhanger!”
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—Katherine Neville, New York Times bestselling author
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In 1917 Jessie Carr, fourteen years old and sole heiress to
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her family’s vast fortune, disappeared. Now, in 1924, her uncle Oliver thinks he’s found her: a young actress in a vaudeville playhouse is a dead ringer for Jessie—but it isn’t her. Never one to miss an opportunity, Oliver proposes that Leah 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 loses her job, Oliver’s offer looks a lot more appealing. Leah agrees to the con but
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promises herself to 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.
M A RY M I L E Y is the winner of the 2012 Minotaur Books / Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition. She
worked
at
Colonial
Williamsburg,
taught
American
history at Virginia Commonwealth University for thirteen years,
and
has
published
extensively
in
history
and
travel. The Impersonator is her first novel. Miley lives in Richmond, Virginia.
MARKETING Winner of the 2012 Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition Will appeal to fans of Seven for a Secret by Lyndsay Faye and The Bones of Paris by Laurie R. King Online publicity campaign Library marketing campaign Featured author on CriminalElement.com 177