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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
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 with...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired by a museum to provide protection during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting, Spenser is personally outraged when the ransom fails and the painting is not recovered, a case that makes him suspect the innocence of the art scholar who retained him.
3) Dirty thirty
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Trenton, New Jersey's most underappreciated bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, while taking care of her boyfriend's giant orange dog, tracks the former security guard of a local jeweler who supposedly stole a fortune of diamonds, and must keep herself clean when everyone else is playing dirty.
4) 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...
5) Foundryside
Author
Series
The founders trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
503 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In The Dying Crapshooter's Blues, he comes a riveting tale set amid the hustle and bustle of 1920s Atlanta. On the same night a drunk cop shoots a gambler, a haul of priceless jewels is stolen-setting the stage for a mystery as complex and steeped in the blues as the city of Atlanta itself.
Author
Series
Junior Bender volume 2
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
347 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Junior Bender is back to untangle one of the weirdest mysteries in Tinseltown. LA burglar Junior Bender has, unfortunately, developed a reputation as a competent private investigator for crooks. The unfortunate part about this is that, regardless of whether he solves the crime or not, someone dangerous is going to be unhappy with him-either his suspect or his employer. Now Junior is being bullied into proving aging music-industry mogul Vinnie DiGaudio...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The highly anticipated, laugh-out-loud third installment in the fan-favorite Junior Bender mysteries There are not many people brave enough to say no to Irwin Dressler, Hollywood's scariest mob boss turned movie king. Even though Dressler is ninety-three years old, LA burglar Junior Bender is quaking in his boots when Dressler's henchmen haul him in for a meeting. Dressler wants Junior to solve a crime he believes was committed more than seventy years...
Author
Series
Riley Wolfe volume 02
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pulling off an impossible crime is the only way he can stay alive. Stealing a Faberge egg. Surviving a double cross. And pulling off the most incredible robbery ever, for the world's most demanding--and dangerous collector. This will be the challenge of thief extraordinaire Riley Wolfe's life. -- adapted from dust jacket
11) The thief
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
219 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.
14) Always a thief
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
15) Wanted
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rexi Hood, the daughter of Robin Hood, must find a way to break the curse that binds her to Princess Dorothea before she becomes a forgotten character.
16) Ghostman
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A casino robbery gone wrong compels its orchestrator to call in a favor from a master criminal known only as "Jack," who must test the limits of his considerable skills in order to protect his anonymity from a closely pursuing FBI.
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Abbey's father falls into a coma and is accused of a crime he didn't commit, Abbey sets out to prove his innocence--and repay a century-old debt.
18) Burning daylight
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
vi, 329 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Three-Fingered Jack McKinney's young son asks him to find his father, who abandoned him and his mother, Luke Jensen agrees to help the boy, but finds his good deed putting him in the middle of a deadly father-and-son reunion.
20) Age of ash
Author
Series
the Kithamar trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
432 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countless thousands live and their stories unfold. This is Alys's. When her brother is murdered, a petty thief from the slums of Longhill sets out to discover who killed him and why. But the more she discovers about him, the more she learns about herself, and the truths she finds are more dangerous than knives. Swept up in an intrigue as deep as the roots...