Author: Greer Macallister

Greer Macallister writes historical fiction that places ambitious women inside suspenseful, carefully researched settings. The Magician’s Lie begins with the stage illusionist known as the Amazing Arden restrained in a small-town police station, where she has one night to persuade officer Virgil Holt that she did not commit the crime attributed to her. Her account reaches backward through escape, performance, love, and the construction of a professional identity in the world of touring magic. Sourcebooks Landmark published the historical thriller in 2015. The Magician’s Lie belongs among Macallister’s historical novels, distinct from her Five Queendoms fantasy sequence. The alternating pressure of interrogation and remembered performance makes truth itself resemble an illusion: Arden controls what Holt hears, but he must decide what her story proves. The novel suits readers drawn to theatrical history, unreliable testimony, and women claiming authority over their own narratives.