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Author
Publisher
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Serial killer Serge Storms finds himself criss-crossing Florida, tracking down digital scam artists and searching for a missing girl, all the while being followed by a hit man from his past.
82) Kiss and tell
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Life comes in stages. Even the Sisterhood has been content to let their gold shields gather a little dust while they enjoy friends and family. But when a string of anonymous emails arrives at Pinewood suggesting shady dealings at a local assisted-living facility, Myra Rutledge and best friend Annie de Silva are ready to out-hustle a master con-artist at his own game. This time, they'll need to enlist some new allies in order to pull off their brilliant...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Stanley Peke and his wife become victims of an elaborate moving-day scam that robs them of all their possessions, it reminds him of his time evading the Nazis in the war-torn Polish countryside, and soon he and his wife are on a cross-country trip, trying to track the criminals down.
Author
Series
Tara Holloway novels volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
On her newest mission for the IRS, Tara investigates radio show host Flo Cash, who has been giving out shady tax advice. Tara also has her hands full when she agrees to be her best friend's maid of honor.
Author
Series
Fox and O'Hare novels volume 4
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
While investigating casino magnate Evan Trace, con man Nicolas Fox and FBI agent Kate O'Hare go undercover as high-stakes gamblers in an attempt to stop Trace's money laundering operation.
Author
Series
Tara Holloway novels volume 11
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
When the IRS is tasked with assisting the border patrol in pursuing individuals who transport illegal immigrants across the border, Tara Holloway must investigate her former flame Brett while convincing her fiance Nick that she doesn't still carry a torch for Brett.
Author
Series
Ava Lee novels volume 2
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Investigating the theft of fifty million dollars from one of the richest men in the Philippines, forensic accountant and martial arts master Ava Lee teams up with her Triad-connected partner, Uncle, to track leads to the illegal gambling dens of Las Vegas.
88) A gift for guile
Author
Series
The Thief-takers volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Beautiful and conniving, maddening and brilliant, Esther is everything private detective Samuel Brass shouldn't want. Esther knows she's put herself in terrible danger, but nothing will stop her from making amends-not her family's enemies, not old fears, and certainly not the domineering, interfering, and undeniably handsome former officer of the Scotland Yard. Yet whenever he's near, Samuel makes her long for a life that can never be hers...and wish...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped by a grifter who has been using his identity in an elaborate con that has devastated an entire South Dakota community, retired cop and millionaire Rushmore McKenzie finds himself at the mercy of angry and desperate townspeople who have nothing left to lose.
90) 419: [a novel]
Author
Publisher
Pintail
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
A car tumbles through darkness down a snowy ravine. A woman without a name walks out of a dust storm in Africa. And in the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the Internet, looking for victims. Lives intersect. Worlds collide. And it all begins with a single email: 'Dear Sir, I am the daughter of a Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help ... ' At once a chilling thriller about a lonely woman avenging her father's death and an epic...
91) The pursuit
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Janet Evanovich, author of the blockbuster Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, writer for the Monk television show, team up once again in their rollicking, New York Times bestselling Fox and O'Hare series! Nicolas Fox, international con man, thief, and one of the top ten fugitives on the FBI's most-wanted list, has been kidnapped from a beachfront retreat in Hawaii. What the kidnapper doesn't know is that Nick Fox has been secretly working...
92) Stone cold fox
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Language
English
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"A compelling debut novel about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mother, wants to leave her dark past behind and marry the heir to one of the country's wealthiest families. Like any enterprising woman, Bea knows what she'sworth and is determined to get all she deserves-it just so happens that what she deserves is to marry rich. After a lifetime of forced instruction in the art of swindling men by her mother, Bea wants...
93) Preacher's fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A big city like St. Louis is the last place where a mountain man like Preacher would pick a fight. But how else would he get at the ruthless power broker who is using fear and bloodshed to take over the western fur trade? Shaving his beard, posing as a greedy hayseed from Ohio, Preacher comes face-to-face with Shad Beaumont, who is leaving St. Louis with an army of hired gunmen - with Preacher on his tail. The odds couldn't be worse and the battleground...
94) Axle Bust Creek
Author
Series
Cleve Trewe western volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Fomer Union soldier Cleveland Trewe has seen more than enough carnage for one lifetime. Now that the war is over he's found work as a peacekeeper and prospector--the perfect set of survival skills for a town like Axle Bust, Nevada...Cleve's uncle stakeda claim in Axle Bust only to lose it to a murderous con-man...To reclaim his uncle's mine, and bring justice to a town under tyranny, Cleve finds himself turning the streets into a bullet-riddled battlefield"--
"From...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, mother of three, is lonely and despairing, pressed for money after the sudden death of her husband. She begins to receive seductive letters from a chivalrous, elegant man named Harry Powers, who promises to cherish and protect her, ultimately to marry her and to care for her children. Weeks later, all four Eichers are dead. Emily Thornhill, one of the few women journalists in the Chicago press, becomes deeply invested...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
A group of medieval con artists offer their services as dragon slayers, whether the kingdom needs them or not. Sir Dalbry, the leader of the group, is a lord knight who was scammed out of his own lands and fortunes, and though he learned honor and the ways of being a knight, he thinks the rest of the world has forgotten it; he now travels the land perpetrating his own cons to get even with the treacherous nobility and to earn his fortune back.
97) Little comfort
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Harvard librarian Hester Thursby runs a side business tracking down the lost. She's usually hired to find long-ago prom dates or reunite adopted children and birth parents. Her new case is finding Sam Blaine: a teenager who fled a small New Hampshire town with his friend, Gabe. The two have reinvented themselves, moving from one mark to another. In Wendy Richards, beautiful, rich daughter of an influential Boston family, Sam has found the perfect...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Description
The conned: an Oxford don, a revered society physician, a chic French art dealer, and a charming English lord. They have one thing in common. Overnight, each novice investor lost his life's fortune to one man. The con: Harvey Metcalfe. A brilliant, self-made guru of deceit. A very dangerous individual. And now, a hunted man. With nothing left to lose four strangers are about to come together-each expert in their own field. Their plan: find Harvey,...
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English
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"A woman returns to her small Maine hometown, uncovering family secrets that take her on a journey of self-discovery and new love, in this warm and charming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over. Smarting from her recently cancelled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown of Calcasset to handle the estate of her great-aunt Dot, a spirited adventurer who lived to be ninety....
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Ole Mbatian Jr., a Maasai warrior; Kevin, his sort-of-son; Agneta, a wronged and penniless ex-wife; and Johan, an unscrupulous Stockholm ad-man whose company specializes in revenge services. As Agneta and Kevin seek revenge against the gallery owner who has wronged them, this funny and philosophical novel takes off on a madcap journey that spans five continents and whirls around a colorful cast of characters, including a goat called Molly and...
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