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Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 10
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A philosophical yet practical gentleman, Bernie Rhodenbarr possesses many admirable qualities: charm, intelligence, sparkling wit, and unwavering loyalty. Of course, he also has this special talent and a taste for life's finer things. So he's more than willing to perform some vengeful larceny for a friend -- ripping off a smarmy, particularly deserving plastic surgeon -- for fun and a very tidy profit.
But during a practice run at another address,...
2) Strip
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
An aging but formidable strip club owner, Claudiu "Manco" Kapak, has been robbed by a masked gunman as he placed his cash receipts in a bank's night-deposit box. Enraged, he sends his half-dozen security men out to find a suspect who is spending lots of cash and is new enough to Los Angeles not to know he was robbing a gangster. Their search leads them to Joe Carver, an innocent but hardly defenseless newcomer who evades capture and sets out to make...
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Gulliver Fairborn's novel, Nobody's Baby, changed Bernie Rhodenbarr's life. And now pretty Alice Cottrell, Fairborn's one-time paramour, wants the bookselling, book-loving burglar to break into a room in New York's teeth-achingly charming Paddington Hotel and purloin some of the writer's very personal letters before an unscrupulous agent can sell them. Here's an opportunity to use his unique talents in the service of the revered, famously reclusive...
Author
Series
Miss Julia series volume 8
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times best-selling author Ann B. Ross creates endearing characters whose earnest exploits trigger wholesome laughter. This time, America's favorite senior citizen takes on thieves who've stolen her jewelry. Although it's not the first time they've targeted her small North Carolina town, Miss Julia vows to make it the last. Soon she and her posse rush to Palm Beach for some sun, sand, and a bizarre stakeout. But how can two elderly ladies,...
5) Jade Island
Author
Series
Donovan Family volume 2
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Wild and restless, Kyle Donovan has freed himself from the constraints of his family's high-powered gem-trading empire to rove the world as a treasure hunter. Now the president of Donovan International has given Kyle an assignment with explosive ramifications. A case he must take. When one of China's legendary cultural treasures is stolen, Lianne Blakely, a mysterious and beautiful jade expert, is accused of the theft. Its Kyle's job to get to the...
6) Bloodshot
Author
Series
Cheshire red reports volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When blind vampire Ian Stott hires thief Raylene Pendle to steal medical documents that may help restore his sight, Raylene learns about Bloodshot, a government-sanctioned project that involved performing cruel experiments on vampires. With the proverbial men in black closing in on her, Raylene follows the Bloodshot document trail from Seattle to Atlanta, where she teams up with a deadly drag queen whose sister was one of the project's victims.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team, both retirees of the LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley. Except for deadly aim with a handgun, the two couples have little in common--until they are both hired to do damage control on the same murder case. As the book races toward a high-octane climax, the Abels must fend for their own lives as they circle ever closer to the...
8) Rogue
Author
Series
Robin Monarch novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A true juggernaut of a thriller, pure adrenaline in print. With the creation of Robin Monarch, Sullivan has crafted a Jason Bourne for the new millennium." -James RollinsMark Sullivan has created a propulsive, compelling new thriller. Rogue, is one part Bourne Identity and one part Mission: Impossible, but listeners will also love the nod to Hitchcock's It Takes a Thief. Two years ago, Robin Monarch was a top level CIA operative-perhaps the best...
Author
Series
Camino Island novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Riley Wolfe novels volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A fearless thief and master of disguise plots an impossible crime"--
11) Fast and loose
Author
Series
Men of the sisterhood volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With the women of the Sisterhood away on a covert assignment, their significant others could be expected to kick back and enjoy a little drama-free downtime. But that's not the way Jack, Ted, Harry, Charles, and the rest of their comrades roll. An urgent call has come to the headquarters of their organization, BOLO Consultants. Bert Navarro, head of security for Countess Anna de Silva, suspects that Annie's deluxe casino, Babylon, is being stealthily...
Author
Series
Tracy Whitney novels volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Forced to confront her greatest nightmare in the face of a tragedy, Tracy Whitney returns to the world of her past to confront a terror threat from a group of global hackers intent on the collapse of capitalism.
13) The thief
Author
Series
Black Dagger Brotherhood. Main series volume 16
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Longing for the man she left behind when she ran from a drug lord's family, former cat burglar Sola Morte returns to her past when he falls into a coma, but his secret may have her running again.
14) The double eagle
Author
Series
Tom Kirk series volume 1
Publisher
Harper Collins
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 23
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.
16) Sweet revenge
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
“You can’t bottle wish fulfillment, but Nora Roberts certainly knows how to put it on the page.”—The New York Times
At twenty-five, Princess Adrianne lives a life most people would envy. Beautiful and elegant, she spends her days dabbling in charities and her nights floating from one glamorous gala to the next. But her pampered-rich-girl pose is a ruse, a carefully calculated effort to hide a dangerous truth.
For...
At twenty-five, Princess Adrianne lives a life most people would envy. Beautiful and elegant, she spends her days dabbling in charities and her nights floating from one glamorous gala to the next. But her pampered-rich-girl pose is a ruse, a carefully calculated effort to hide a dangerous truth.
For...
17) Thick as Thieves
Author
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years ago in the dead of night, four seemingly random individuals pulled the ultimate heist and almost walked away with half a million dollars. But by daybreak, their plan had been shot to hell. One of them was in the hospital. One was in jail. One was dead. And one got away with it. Arden Maxwell, the daughter of the man who disappeared all those years ago -- presumably with the money, after murdering his accomplice -- has never reconciled...
18) The Jensen brand
Author
Series
Jensen brand (William Johnstone) volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Smoke and Sally Jensen's Sugarloaf Ranch is being threatened by rustlers and the call goes out for help, but Sugarloaf's last defense is the Jensen twins, Denise and Louis, who have just returned from their schooling in Europe"--
Author
Series
Illmoor chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Duke Modeset employs the help of the beautiful Princess Susti of Phlegm to help rid Illmoor of Groan Teethgrit and Gordo Goldeaxe once and for all.
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume Prequel
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[I]n which a band of amateur thieves pulls off one of the biggest airport heists in history with deadly consequences" --
"Every week, a hundred million dollars in cash arrives at Miami International Airport, shipped by German banks to the Federal Reserve. A select group of trusted workers moves the bags through Customs and loads them into armored trucks. Ruban Betancourt has always played by the rules. But the bank taking his house and his restaurant...
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