Heist Fiction

Will Chen, a Chinese American art history student at Harvard, has spent most of his life learning about the West—its art, its culture, all that it has taken and called its own. He believes art belongs with its creators, so when a Chinese corporation offers him a (highly illegal) chance to reclaim five priceless sculptures, it's surprisingly easy to say yes.

The name’s Abadare Glynt. Yes, really. I’ve been chewed up and spat out more times than a dog’s favorite bone, but I keep coming back for more, which is probably a good thing for an outcast, occasional detective, and all-round shadowy guy. Things weren’t exactly going well, but I’d decided to see the glass as being half-full, so when a beautiful woman with an ugly job fell into my lap, how could I refuse? Add to the mix a hell-raising heist, a murderous dimension hopping enchantress, and a spell on the loose with the potential to destroy half the city.

In 1907, the revolutionary Joseph Djugashvili - who would later take the name Joseph Stalin - met with an old friend, a clerk at the Tiflis branch of the State Bank of the Russian Empire, for a glass of milk. Over talk of national pride, the spirit of the new century and Djugashvili's poetry, they agreed on the beginnings of a plan. With the aid of the Outfit, Djugashvili's hardened crew of 'expropriators', they would pull off the biggest, bloodiest and most daring robbery in Georgia's history, and ruthlessly change the direction of the Bolshevik revolution forever.

Having pulled off an impossible heist, Jonathan wants nothing more than to relax and take a few simple jobs as a distraction. But nothing is ever simple for the Dragon. When friends go missing, an old enemy returns, demanding Jonathan take a job even more dangerous than the last. If he refuses, new friends will suffer, but if he takes the job, Heziah may gain a power to overthrow the Society itself.

Female FBI Agent Charlie Glass is assigned to recover treasures stolen from the Baghdad Museum during the Iraq War. The suspense explodes when she uncovers an international crime syndicate within her own team. Mysterious murders and bitter betrayals plunge Charlie into a deadly fight for survival.

Join Mike and Kate from the bestselling Ballpark Mysteries series as they embark on one of their most thrilling adventures yet—right in their hometown of Cooperstown, New York! The duo is helping out at a spooktacular Zombie Fun Run charity race in town. But the excitement takes a chilling turn when Mike is attacked by a zombie and the donated money vanishes into thin air!

Hannah Conway overhears a lot while working behind the bar of a nightclub – friendly gossip, lovers quarrels, bad business deals – but nothing that usually involves anyone she cares about. Until she hears Jez Reilly, a corrupt businessman who runs the club, talking about the street her grandma lives on. Jez wants to buy the land for a new luxury development, and most of the residents and businesses have already agreed to sell up. But for those who refuse, something sinister is in store.

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This wasn’t the first time a soggy box with a disgruntled cat inside was left on the doorstep of our shelter. However, this was the first time the cat talked to me. What did the barista put in my coffee? Persephone insists she’s been catnapped, and she’s witnessed an art heist. There’s a huge reward for the safe return of the painting, and the money could go a long way to helping our animals find their forever homes. Now, I have to convince the gallery owner and her associates - including the suspicious, adorable Henry the Hottie - that I can find a priceless painting.

Beartooth is a novel about two survivalist brothers in desperate straits, who are lured into committing a crime in Yellowstone National Park. Thad and Hazen, long ago abandoned by their wayward mother, are drowning in medical bills and notices about back taxes. They live alone in an aging, timber house hand-built into the leeside of the Beartooth Mountains. Thad’s the older brother, responsible, a loner, the caretaker of Hazen, who is a little . . . different.

John Dortmunder has been working an encyclopedia-selling scam while waiting for his next big heist. Unfortunately, his latest mark seems to be wise to the con, and he has to cut his sales pitch short and make a quick escape.

He knows she’s a thief. She knows he’s a fed. they married each other anyway. And now that the honeymoon’s over, things are about to get interesting.

You can't go far without a quick brain and some rule-bending in a place like Locksley. After its vast car plants shut down, the prosperous town has become a wasteland of empty homes, toxic land and families on the brink. And it doesn't help that the authorities are in the clutches of profit-obsessed Sheriff of Nottingham, in cahoots with underworld boss Guy Gisborne.

Master burglars Harper and Salsa thought they were on easy street forever. Then they heard about the private casino on a mysterious island in the Florida Keys, and the millions in lost Nazi gold propping up the whole enterprise.

Shaeffer is an old-school heistman. You need an armored car taken or a football stadium's gate receipts lifted, you call Shaeffer and his buddies. But the world is fast moving to a cashless economy. Everyone is paying with Paypal, debit cards, or electronic fund transfers these days. Join an aging heistman as he tries to deal with an increasingly high-tech society, feeling more and more left behind.

They pissed off the wrong cybernetic, talking, magic, murder kitty. Now, betrayal runs deep, but revenge runs deeper. Skritch isn’t your average cat. She just happens to look a bit like one. Armed with cybernetic limbs, nanites, and a razor-sharp wit, she’s a master thief navigating a dystopian world. When her mentor, Jammer, is murdered in a botched heist, Skritch’s life is torn apart. Framed for a crime she didn’t commit, Skritch has only one choice—track down the real killer before the authorities close in around her and get her revenge by any means possible. As she hunts for ...

When almost-thirteen-year-old Josephine Eloise Thomas moves from Sydney to a chateau in the southwest of France, she expects many things - adventures, inspiration for the stories she loves to write and maybe finding out more about her French mother, who tragically died when she was a toddler. What she doesn't expect is to find a beautiful gold locket with the ghost of Louis XVII trapped inside! After being accidentally released into the twenty-first century, the young prince proves to be annoying, strange and obviously from another time.

Inspector Rebecca Mayfield has been a by-the-book cop until Richie Amalfi enters her life. Find out how they meet in the Christmas novella, The Thirteenth Santa, when the search for a missing Santa brings Richie and a surprising amount of Christmas cheer into Rebecca’s life. Then, in One O'Clock Hustle, when Richie is accused of murder, he runs to Rebecca to help him prove his innocence.

Ein Roman, so schnell erzählt wie "Kill Bill" von Tarantino! Ein spektakulärer Kunstraub. Verschollene Gemälde. Eine kurdische Hochzeit. Ein Scharfschütze, der einen Schuss abfeuert. Eine Familie zwischen den Niederlanden und Kurdistan, für die nichts mehr ist, wie es war. Im Stil eines Actionfilms mit schnellen Cuts erzählt Cemile Sahin die Geschichte eines Verrats, von Liebe, Freundschaft und Leben im Exil, so auf der Höhe der Zeit, wie nur sie es kann.

Heaven hath no rage like love turned to hatred. Everybody hates me - Hades, Fenrir, and Griff. We’re caught in a magical tug of war between vengeful gods, and my mate thinks I’m to blame. His animosity blazes as hot as his passion, and I’m about to get scorched. If I don’t fix my mistakes we’ll both burn in Hell.