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1) Unbecoming
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL
“Startlingly inventive.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A sheer delight to read . . . I had no idea what was going to happen from one page to the next.” —Kate Atkinson
On the grubby outskirts of Paris, Grace restores bric-a-brac, mends teapots, re-sets gems. She calls herself Julie, says she’s from California, and slips back to...
“Startlingly inventive.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A sheer delight to read . . . I had no idea what was going to happen from one page to the next.” —Kate Atkinson
On the grubby outskirts of Paris, Grace restores bric-a-brac, mends teapots, re-sets gems. She calls herself Julie, says she’s from California, and slips back to...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him? Stella's father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect. Told in an unusual...
3) Void moon
Author
Language
English
Description
Cassie has never looked back. She walked away from her life as a criminal after one disastrous night and now she is thriving at a job selling Porsches. Her greatest secret is threatened and Cassie tosses her new life away to get money as fast as she can.
4) Parlor games
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
A beautiful con artist relates her turn-of-the-century escapades that took her around the world as she was being doggedly pursued by a Pinkerton Agency detective.
Author
Series
Crissa Stone novel volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Hoping for a final big score that will reunite her with her loved ones and allow her to live an honest life, Crissa Stone is forced to flee when her partners in crime kill each other, a situation that is complicated by an ex-mobster's efforts to claim a former associate's hidden millions.
Author
Series
Crissa Stone novel volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Determined to secure her mentor and lover's parole by fixing an illegal card game, career criminal Crissa Stone plots a daring robbery that goes wrong when one of her crew shoots a player with connections to an equally desperate hit man.
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
©2003.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by his past, doctor Blue Calhoun finds his life forever changed by the arrival of Isabel Fish-Wooten, a wounded fugitive trying to prove her innocence, and braves high society and the criminal underworld to find the truth.
8) The untold
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books, Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On the run from two bounty hunters in the Australian outback of 1921, Jessie reflects on her past as a circus rider, horse thief, cattle rustler, and convict while determinedly struggling to reunite with her child.
9) Odds on
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Steven Jencks has planned the perfect crime. Working with two skilled associates, he will hit the Reina, a super-luxury hotel off the coast of Spain, and then walk away with the haul of a lifetime. As the ultimate pro, Jencks has even run his plan through a complex computer simulation to account for every possible variable-- Except three. Their names are Annette, Cynthia, and Jenny. And no computer could ever simulate what these three femmes fatales...
10) No good deed
Author
Series
Lucy Kincaid novel volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Lucy Kincaid understands the dangers of corruption. As an FBI agent, she has witnessed some very bad deeds committed by seemingly good people. That's why she's glad to see corrupt DEA Agent Nicole Rollins behind bars for murder, conspiracy, and gunrunning. But when Rollins makes a daring escape--jeopardizing a busload of children and killing five officers--Lucy becomes the key to the biggest manhunt in Texas history--and the target of a brilliant...
11) Montana dawn
Author
Publisher
Avalon Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When the remnants of a ruthless outlaw gang invade the peaceful desert setting Montana Dawn shares with her gentleman husband, little does the girl suspect that her long-dormant spirit for a life far removed from her domestic existence will be passionately re-ignited and that circumstances will soon brand her as the most wanted female criminal in the Southwest. With a bounty on their head and a determined posse hot in pursuit, Montana Dawn and her...
Author
Series
Crissa Stone novel volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It's been a year since professional thief Crissa Stone last pulled a job, and she's spent that time under the radar, very carefully not drawing attention to herself. That kind of life is safe, but it's boring, and it's lonely, and it's not very lucrative. So when Crissa starts to get antsy--and low on funds--she agrees to act as a thief-for-hire, partnering with a wealthy art collector to steal a truckload of plundered Iraqi artifacts before they're...
Author
Series
Thief-takers volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Years ago, Owen Renderwell earned acclaim--and a title--for the sashing rescue of a kidnapped duchess. But only a select few knew that Scotland Yard's most famous detective was working alongside London's most infamous thief...and his criminally brilliant daughter, Charlotte Walker. Lottie was like no other woman in Victorian England. She challenged him. She dazzled him. She questioned everything he believed and everything he was, and he has never...
14) Lola: a novel
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The Crenshaw Six are a small but up-and-coming gang in South Central LA who have recently been drawn into an escalating war between rival drug cartels. To outsiders, the Crenshaw Six appear to be led by a man named Garcia. but what no one has figured out is that the gang's real leader (and secret weapon) is Garcia's girlfriend, a brilliant young woman named Lola. Lola has mastered playing the role of submissive girlfriend, and in the man's world...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Emma loves her life. She’s the mother of a precocious kindergartener, married to her soulmate—a loyal and loving police detective—and has a rewarding career as a doctor at the local hospital. But everything comes crashing down when her son, Josh, is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Determined to save him, Emma makes the risky decision to sell opioids to fund the life-saving treatment he needs. But when somebody ends up dead, a lethal game...
Author
Series
Slocum volume 430
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Down on his luck in San Francisco, John Slocum takes a contract with the Central California Railroad. He's given the difficult task of locating a stolen shipment of silver worth over one hundred thousand dollars, but he catches a break when he discovers that the company's attractive secretary, Tamara, was an accomplice in the robbery. Too bad his employer would rather believe in the thief's feminine wiles than in Slocum's cold hard facts. Fuming...
17) Lucky bunny
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Crime's a man's business. So they say. Who was that small figure then, slender enough to trot along the moonlit track, swift and low, virtually invisible? Who was it that covered the green signal with a glove to stop the train, while the two others took care of the driver and his mate? Could it have been one Queenie Dove, survivor of the Depression and the Blitz, not to mention any number of scrapes with the law?' Queenie Dove is a self-proclaimed...
18) Out of her mind
Author
Series
Sawyer Brooks volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Crime reporter Sawyer Brooks still grieves for the family she and her two sisters never had. Raised in a house of horrors, they continue to fight through the trauma--releasing their rage by seeking justice for those who are just as vulnerable as they were. When a little girl's bones are unearthed in Sacramento's Land Park and twelve-year-old Riley Addison disappears, solving these cases becomes an obsession for Sawyer--one that puts her job at risk....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and aschool board who will do anything to find her. Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who embezzles." Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her...
20) Scarlet nights
Author
Series
Edilean volume 3
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In Edilean, Virginia, undercover detective Mike Newland uses Sara Shaw to track down a woman who is one of the most notorious criminals in the United States--and also happens to be the mother of Greg Anders, the man who Sara plans to marry and who leaves her without explanation three weeks before the wedding.
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