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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.
82) 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...
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Series
Tara Holloway novels volume 11
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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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.
84) The big kahuna
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Series
Language
English
Description
A sinister adversary has Nick Fox and Kate O'Hare in his crosshairs. Unfortunately, the number one player on their team, Kate's father, is on the run after being betrayed by an old friend. The trio must watch their backs to rid the world of their two greatest foes, and clear their names.
Author
Series
Serge Storms novels volume 17
Language
English
Description
When a scam leads to a young woman's disappearance, Florida serial killer and encyclopedia of Sunshine State lore Serge Storms and his sidekick Coleman load up the car for a road trip to save a damsel in distress.
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.
87) Stone cold fox
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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...
88) 419: [a novel]
Author
Publisher
Pintail
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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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...
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English
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"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...
90) 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...
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.
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...
93) 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...
94) Little comfort
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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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...
95) Little Dorrit
Author
Series
Publisher
Dodd, Mead & Company
Pub. Date
1951
Language
English
Description
A satire on the English Civil Service, with descriptions of prison life. First published in 1857.
Little Dorrit grows up in Marshalsea prison, where her father is confined for his debts, and she helps to feed the family with her needlework until her father receives an inheritance when she is in her teens, and more problems ensue.
Set in England in the mid 1800s, this novel portrays a prison-world in which the shadow of the Marshalsea reaches from...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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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,...
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...
Author
Series
Dixie Hemingway mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In the sixth installment of the wildly popular Dixie Hemingway mystery series, Dixie is caring for the cat of a prickly old man whose granddaughter shows up with baby in tow. Dixie desperately tries to save this young woman and her infant from murderous con artists ready to kill in order to hold on to the millions they stole from naive investors. The villains, though, are not run of the mill criminals; they are among the socially prominent movers...
Author
Publisher
Small Beer Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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In 1888 in Victoria, Texas, for a simple job, a Chicago private eye gets caught up in the poker game to end all poker games. Shannon, a Chicago private detective, returns home to Galveston, Texas for a wedding. Galveston’s new rabbi asks Shannon to find Nathan Silverberg, gone missing along with a group of swindlers who claim to be soliciting money for a future colony of Romanian Jewish refugees. What seems to be a simple job soon pushes Shannon...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Meet Brett Revere. A failed actor and recently fired temp, he's created a life centered on survival and hopefulness. Plucky doesn't pay the rent, but if you use your charm and good looks to convince other people that you're already wealthy--this of course connects you to other wealthy people who are happy to buy you things as long as you're one of them. When Brett meets Jamie Brock at a watering hole for rich, older gay men and the younger men who...
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