When the score of a lifetime presents itself, criminal mastermind Kaz Brekker assembles a crack team of talented outcasts. Their mission: to rescue a prisoner from the most secure prison in the world, so that the secrets he holds can be exploited by the right people. As Kaz and his compatriots put together a daring plan, they contend with old grudges, mistrust, lingering secrets, and deadly rivalries. Naturally, things go wrong once they start their...

Timmy is forced to take his investigation into stolen charity funds on the road when his mother forces him to help her boyfriend move to Chicago. They are on the road in a cross-country trip that includes Timmy's mom, Total the polar bear, Doorman Dave, and criminal mastermind Molly Moskins. It's a world gone mad, where good becomes bad, and Timmy Failure is a condemned man.

When Amber becomes angry that her boyfriend, Craig, has been neglecting her on a cruise around the Great Lakes, Nancy takes it upon herself to investigate why, and finds that Craig is really a detective on the heels of a diamond thief.

March and Jules are teenage twins, following in their father's footsteps as jewel thieves, but when their latest job goes wrong they end up with one jewel, a sapphire called the Morning Star, one of three cursed jewels--and the only way they can break thecurse is to elude the FBI, Interpol, and a gang of international criminals, find the other two jewels, and reunite them.

Goldeline travels through the woods with a group of bandits, getting by on the things they steal from passing carriages, but a man who wants to cleanse the Hinterlands of anyone who is different hunts Goldeline, believing her a witch.

Enduring boring days spent inventing traps to keep plunderers at bay, trapsmith Wily Snare is kidnapped by the first thieves to outwit his innovations and is recruited into their band to help loot treasure as part of a rebellion against the Infernal King.

While on a school trip to the British Arts & Antiquities Museum, John Watson and his friends from the Baker Street Academy get involved in a mystery when the Alpine Star, a famous diamond, is stolen.

An unusual hex sign leads Nancy Drew to Pennsylvania Dutch country in pursuit of a thief who stops at nothing to get rid of her.

Convinced that someone is stealing his old toys, Eugene tries to track down the thief.

"Seventeen-year-old Valeria has been on the run ever since she escaped the curse of Knnot, a magical happening that encased her entire mining town in unbreakable ice"--