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1) Simply lies
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Pub. Date
2023.
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...
3) Sucker bet
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Series
Tony Valentine mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 25 cm.
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Frieda Klein novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
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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.
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Stone Barrington novels volume 19
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Stone Barrington's undercover dealings with MI6 have brought in a big new client for the Woodman & Weld law firm, and the firm is willing to pay Stone a huge bonus and make him a partner. But a murder close to home and a request from the CIA to help transport a fugitive, Erwin Gelbhardt, from Spain to the U.S., bring him back to earth.
8) Fingersmith
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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...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 23
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Nancy Drew and her two friends help uncover a gang of swindlers while vacationing in a seaside town.
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Dino riders volume 6
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While the sheriff is away, crooked businessman Malachi Wilks and his stegosaurus workers try to build a railroad through Trihorn Valley, with only Josh and his friends standing in his way.
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Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Forming a partnership with a prostitute, a down-on-his-luck con man recklessly agrees to a friend's request to orchestrate a theft in a Los Angeles apartment, where a crew of soldiers is reputed to have stashed millions in cash smuggled out of Afghanistan.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Struggling to work as a graphic artist, former master forger Tom Fairchild accepts a precarious but lucrative job from the millionaire father of his former girlfriend only to discover that the assignment involves a dubious ulterior motive.
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
450 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In a story alternating between the past and present, Laura Preston flies to Thailand to meet a stranger claiming to be her lost brother, who disappeared when the Preston family lived in Bangkok nearly fifty years ago.
14) Swindle
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
252 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
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Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 25
Publisher
Grosset and Dunlap
Pub. Date
1967
Physical Desc
178 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
A search for stolen jewelry takes Nancy to New Orleans where she uncovers a swindling racket in which a medium uses her trade to relieve victims of their valuables.
16) A million to one
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Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
Description
An acrobat, an actress, an artist, and a thief, four girls who seemingly have nothing in common, work together and plot a heist to steal the Rubaiyat off the Titanic.
17) The job
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"He's a charming con man and she's a dedicated FBI agent, and they're about to drive each other crazy. again! The FBI had one demand when they secretly teamed up Special Agent Kate O'Hare with charming con man Nicolas Fox--bring down the world's most-wanted and untouchable felons. This time it's the brutal leader of a global drug-smuggling empire. The FBI doesn't know what their target looks like, where he is, or how to find him, but Nick Fox has...
18) A good horse
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Series
Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
246 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack, when it comes to light that his dam might have been stolen.
19) The heist
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FBI Special Agent Kate O'Hare is known for her fierce dedication and discipline on the job, chasing down the world's most wanted criminals and putting them behind bars. Her boss thinks she is tenacious and ambitious; her friends think she is tough, stubborn, and maybe even a bit obsessed. And while Kate has made quite a name for herself for the past five years, the only name she's cared about is Nicolas Fox, an international crook she wants in more...
20) Heist society
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Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
287 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Description
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.
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