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Author
Series
Riley Wolfe novels volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
358 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
Description
Riley Wolfe is a master thief, expert at disguise and violent when he needs to be. It's no accident, though, that Riley targets only the .1% and is willing to kill when necessary: He despises the degenerate and immoral possessors of the objects that he steals. In this series launch, Riley targets an extraordinary set of crown jewels, a heist that will hopefully land him with a sensational collection of heirlooms and leave their owners bereft and embarrassed--or...
Author
Series
Michael St. Pierre thrillers volume 3
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
471 p. ; 24 cm.
Author
Series
Riley Wolfe novels volume 2
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Thief and disguise artist Riley Wolfe continues his Robin Hood-inspired crusade against the wealthy elite by orchestrating the theft of a highly prized Faberge egg.
5) Nightwork
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head, slipping into luxurious, emptyhomes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago-but kept up his nightwork. Wandering from the Outer Banks to Savannah to New Orleans, he dons new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. He can't afford to attract attention-or get attached. Still, he can't...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 45
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
176 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Nancy Drew's latest involvement in a mystery begins in her home town and concerns a synthetic sapphire with a spider embedded in it, and the strange disappearance of Ned Nickerson.
7) Strip
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
As an odd series of difficulties explodes into a triple killing, innocent bystander Joe Carver finds himself in the middle of a brewing gang war, while the actual thief journeys into territory more strange and violent than he ever imagined.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"In this eighteenth mystery in the Chocoholic series, a gang of crooks with a wicked sweet tooth wreaks havoc on the resort town of Warner Pier, and it's up to Lee Woodyard to rout the hungry rascals. A frantic late-night phone call from her right-hand woman, Dolly Jolly, brings Lee Woodyard to the scene of a break-in at the Warner Pier jewelry store next door to TenHuis Chocolade. To her shock, the suspect being held at gunpoint by police is Dolly's...
9) Heartwishes
Author
Series
Edilean series volume 5
Description
Historian Gemma Ranford and Colin Frazier must work together to find the Heartwishes stone that's been missing for over one hundred years--and with an international thief also on the hunt, the clock is ticking. Because in the wrong hands, no one named Frazier will ever be safe.
10) The thief
Author
Description
The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn't even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from whom he chooses his victims. He has no family, no friends, no connections. But he does have a past, which finally catches up with him when Ishikawa, his first partner, reappears in his life, and offers...
Author
Description
"August, 1911: The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens in the two years before its recovery is a mystery. Many replicas of the Mona Lisa exist, and more than one historian has wondered if the painting now in the Louvre is a fake, switched in 1911. Present day: art professor Luke Perrone digs for the truth behind his most famous ancestor: Peruggia. His search attracts an Interpol detective with something to prove and an unfamiliar...
Author
Series
Michael St. Pierre thrillers volume 4
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
406 p.
Description
Reformed thief Michael St. Pierre and his ex-girlfriend, KC Ryan, are coerced by a military official to steal centuries-old artifacts from China to solve an ancient puzzle, a dual mission that places their lives in each other's hands.
13) Blood pact
Author
Series
Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 17
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"A large portion of the fabulous treasure originally stolen by conquistadors of the eighteenth century was buried in the desert of southern New Mexico by Spanish monks. Jacob Ambli, a Catholic priest, was sent as a spy on a Spanish military mission to find seven caches left for the Church. He kept a diary showing the locations, but was murdered trying to get back to Rome, and the journal was lost. Now, a century and a half later, the diary has come...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 13
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
157 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
"The Thea Sisters are boarding the famouse Orient Express for a journey from Paris to Istanbul! The train is on a special trip to return a precious wedding dress stolen years ago from an Istanbul museum. But there's a rumor that the mysterious Acrobat Thief will steal the gown from the moving train! The Thea Sisters are determined to foil this sneaky mouse's plans" -- p. [4] of cover.
15) Camino Island
Author
Series
Camino Island novels volume 1
Description
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
16) Book of night
Author
Series
Description
"Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie. Now, she's trying to distance herself from...
Author
Series
Riley Wolfe novels volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Super thief Riley Wolfe can do it all. He is a master of disguise, can scale a wall, and can vanish into thin air (thick air, too). He uses these unique talents to rob the richest. But this time, it’s the most powerful who have him in their grips. It’s not just that the high-up, rogue government agent has abducted the only two people Riley loves: it’s the fact that Riley has to do the man’s dirty work to set them free. It’s something Riley...
Author
Series
Earthsea series volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1971
Physical Desc
163 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Arha's isolated existence as high priestess in the tombs of Atuan is jarred by a thief, wizard Ged Sparrowhawk, who seeks a special treasure.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
512 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"As a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened. Having narrowly saved the metropolis of Tevanne from destruction, Sancia Grado and her allies have turned to their next task: sowing the seeds of a full-on magical-industrial revolution. If they succeed, the secrets behind scriving--the art of imbuing everyday objects with sentience--will be accessible to all of Tevanne's citizens, muchto the displeasure of the robber-barons who've...
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