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1) Simply lies
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Mickey Gibson, single mother and former detective, leads a hectic life: juggling the demands of her two small children with the tasks of her job working remotely for ProEye, a global investigation company that hunts down wealthy tax and credit cheats. When Mickey gets a call from a colleague named Arlene Robinson, she thinks nothing of Arlene’s unusual request for her to go inventory the vacant home of an arms dealer who cheated ProEye’s clients...
2) Mrs. Kimble
Author
Language
English
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Description
The award-winning debut novel from Jennifer Haigh, author of Baker Towers, The Condition, and Faith, tells the story of Birdie, Joan, and Dinah, three women who marry the same charismatic, predatory, and enigmatic opportunist: Ken Kimble. Resonating with emotional intensity and narrative innovation reminiscent of Ann Patchett's Bel Canto, Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Haigh's Mrs....
Author
Language
English
Description
"Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted...
5) The score
Author
Series
Score novels (Kiki Swinson) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When hustlers Lauren, Matt, and Yancy rip off a tycoon's bank account, the millionaire will stop at nothing to recover his money, putting them all at risk.
Author
Series
Shadow game trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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Description
With bounties on their heads, Enne continues to play the role of both a lady and a street lord, while Levi begins a relationship with the son of a member of the Mafia.
8) Stone cold
Author
Series
Camel Club novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
"Oliver Stone and the Camel Club are back in their most dangerous adventure yet, a war on two fronts"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
A pair of best friends and occasional lovers who meet at a last-chance camp before juvenile detention embark on what they hope is a lucrative career in scam artistry with Nulife, a company that promises consumers a lifetime of bliss.
Author
Series
Thieves of shadow volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In their final task, junior con artist Callan and his friends mastermind a prison break from the empire's most impenetrable island fortress.
12) Savannah breeze
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Language
English
Description
BeBe Loudermilk lost her worldly possessions to a con man, and all that's left is a ramshackle 1950s motor court on Tybee Island. Breeze Inn is a place where the very classy BeBe normally wouldn't be caught dead, but with no alternative, she vows to make magic out of mud. Then the con man is sighted in Fort Laudedale, and BeBe plans a "sting operation" that may be just a bit outside the law, but with any luck at all, BeBe may get her money back.
13) The gatecrasher
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Language
English
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Description
Fleur Daxeny gatecrashes funerals in the hopes of picking up rich and vulnerable men, but when she becomes involved with Richard Favour, she discovers that she is in too deep, and that she wants more than his money.
14) The ex-husband
Author
Language
English
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Description
Taking a personal assistant position for an extravagant-and mysterious-engagement party on board a superyacht, former con artist Charlotte becomes trapped with someone who knows her past and is hell-bent on making her pay for it.
15) Swindle
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.
17) Fingersmith
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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Description
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves-fingersmiths-for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home. One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives-Gentleman, a somewhat elegant con man, who carries with...
18) Lucky
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Language
English
Description
Lucky Armstrong is a tough, talented grifter who has just pulled off a million-dollar heist with her boyfriend, Cary. She?s ready to start a brand-new life, with a new identity?when things go sideways. Lucky finds herself alone for the first time, navigating the world without the help of either her father or her boyfriend, the two figures from whom she?s learned the art of the scam. When she discovers that a lottery ticket she bought on a whim is...
19) Tuesday's gone
Author
Series
Frieda Klein novels volume 2
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Description
Psychotherapist Frieda Klein takes on a case involving the murder of conman Robert Poole who was found in the flat of a mentally disturbed woman.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Civil War veteran Bobby Hale journeys into the Plains Wars-stricken American West, discovering a sense of purpose through his encounters with Native Americans and settlers who scrabble for peace and survival.
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