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In this stunning debut, author Scott Lynch delivers the wonderfully thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his band of confidence tricksters. Set in a fantastic city pulsing with the lives of decadent nobles and daring thieves, here is a story of adventure, loyalty, and survival that is one part Robin Hood, one part Ocean’s Eleven , and entirely enthralling.… An orphan’s life is harsh–and often short–in the... (more)

Honest Illusions

by Nora Roberts

A magician's daughter has inherited her father's talents-and his penchant for jewel thievery. Then she meets an escape artist who captures her heart and has secrets that could shatter her illusions...

The Gentleman Bastard Sequence: Book 2

Red Seas Under Red Skies

by Scott Lynch

In his highly acclaimed debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora , Scott Lynch took us on an adrenaline-fueled adventure with a band of daring thieves led by con artist extraordinaire Locke Lamora. Now Lynch brings back his outrageous hero for a caper so death-defying, nothing short of a miracle will pull it off. After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke and his trusted sidekick,... (more)

How it Happened in Peach Hill

by Marthe Jocelyn

Annie's mother has special powers. Annie's mother is a master at drawing out secrets. Annie's mother is the one and only, the irresistible Madam Caterina. Annie and her mother come to Peach Hill, the latest in a string of towns where Mama sets herself up as a spiritual adviser who can put people in contact with the "dearly departed." Fifteen-year-old Annie is Mama's invisible secret weapon—she gathers important... (more)

Company of Liars

by Karen Maitland

In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales—an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama. The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the certain death that is running inexorably toward them. Each member of... (more)

The Bamboozlers

by Michael De Guzman

Albert Rosegarden is a boy ready and waiting for an adventure to take him away from Mountain View, Idaho (where there are no mountains in view)--and he gets what he wants when Wendell shows up, the grandfather Albert didn't know he had. Wendell is an old ex-con of mixed ancestry who carries a violin case he calls the Stradivarius. Albert's mother and Wendell have been estranged for years, and she orders him to... (more)

Graham Parker: Fair Use (Notes from Spam)

Graham Parker: Fair Use (Notes from Spam)

by Graham Parker

For almost a decade, Graham Parker has been making art from and about spam e-mails. Fair Use presents his ''notes from spam'' - five books, each written about a different time and place, collecting essays, artworks and fragments that arrived, unbidden, in the artist's Inbox. Parker uses his growing archive on this most despised contemporary phenomenon and its historical analogues to create narratives in which... (more)

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HONEST ILLUSIONS

by Nora Roberts

This is a suspenseful romance novel.

Make Me a Match

by Diana Holquist

In this charming debut romance, cardiologist Cecelia Burns's psychic sister Amy has the ability to see the name of a person's true love. Even though Amy swore never to tell Cecelia the name destined for her, she breaks her vow when she realizes the man is dying and only Cecelia can save him. Original.

The Good Thief

by Hannah Tinti

Richly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist, The Good Thief introduces one of the most appealing young heroes in contemporary fiction and ratifies Hannah Tinti as one of our most exciting new talents. Twelve year-old Ren is missing his left hand. How it was lost is a mystery that Ren has been trying to solve for his entire life, as well as who his... (more)

Games You Can't Lose

by Harry Anderson

Here in this funny, insightful and deliciously wicked book Harry Anderson unveils the tricks behind cons, swindles, and wagers that separate fools and their money in streets, bars, carnivals, casios and racetracks every day.

American Gods

by Neil Gaiman

Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident. Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him introduces himself. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more about Shadow than is possible. He warns Shadow that... (more)

The Kidd Series: Book 1

Fool's Run

by John Sandford

Corporate con games from the #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author. On the cutting edge of high-tech corporate warfare, two state-of-the-art con artists find the noose tightening--when their ultimate con turns against them.

The Kidd Series: Book 2

The Empress File

by John Sandford

Kidd and LuEllen, a wining pair of lovers and liars, get embroiled in a deadly con involving false identities, small-town scandals, and big-time murder.

The Kidd Series: Book 3

The Devil's Code

by John Sandford

Kidd and LuEllen get caught in the crosshairs of an assassin hell-bent on conning the life out of the ultimate con artists.

The Kidd Series: Book 4

The Hanged Man's Song

by John Sandford

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the phenomenal Prey novels returns with The Hanged Man's Song .

The Grifters (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

The Grifters (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Jim Thompson

Roy DIllon seems too handsome and well-mannered to be a professional con man. Lilly Dillon looks too young--and loves Roy a little too intensely--to be taken for his mother. Moira Langtry is getting too old to keep on living off the kindness of male strangers. And Carol Roberg seems too innocent to be acquainted with suffering.

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The Lies of Locke Lamora

by Scott Lynch

Honest Illusions

by Nora Roberts

Red Seas Under Red Skies

by Scott Lynch

How it Happened in Peach Hill

by Marthe Jocelyn

Company of Liars

by Karen Maitland

The Bamboozlers

by Michael De Guzman

Graham Parker: Fair Use (Notes from Spam)

by Graham Parker

HONEST ILLUSIONS

by Nora Roberts

Make Me a Match

by Diana Holquist

The Good Thief

by Hannah Tinti

Games You Can't Lose

by Harry Anderson

American Gods

by Neil Gaiman

Fool's Run

by John Sandford

The Empress File

by John Sandford

The Devil's Code

by John Sandford

The Hanged Man's Song

by John Sandford

The Grifters (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Jim Thompson