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Author
Series
Andrew Yancy novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Involved in a car accident with a scam artist, a man helplessly watches his life spiral out of control following subsequent interactions with a sand-stealing company, a mafia capo, a reality show accordionist, and other eccentric characters.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
To save her mother, a con artist who hustled to give her a decent childhood, Nina must run her most audacious, dangerous scam yet that involves a privileged young heiress as they both try to survive the greatest game of deceit and destruction they will ever play.
3) Identity
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A woman discovers her apartment broken into and her roommate dead after meeting a cold-hearted con artist at the bar where she works.
4) Simply lies
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Mickey Gibson, single mother and former detective, leads a hectic life: juggling the demands of her two small children with the tasks of her job working remotely for ProEye, a global investigation company that hunts down wealthy tax and credit cheats. When Mickey gets a call from a colleague, she thinks nothing of the unusual request for her to go inventory the vacant home of an arms dealer who cheated ProEye's clients and fled. That is, until she...
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 31
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Alexis Thorn and Joe Esposito rally the Sisterhood around a soldier's grieving widow, a victim of a fertility clinic con artist who has destroyed her chance to have a child with her late husband.
6) Rising fire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Targeted by the lecherous Count Malatesta, who is determined to scam money out of the Jensens, beautiful Denny Jensen, who can outride, outrope and outshoot any man, vows to shake off this silver-tongued stalker no matter what it takes.
10) Con Academy
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Con man Will Shea may have met his match in scammer Andrea Dufresne as they make a high-stakes deal that will determine who gets to stay at Connaughton Academy, one of the most elite and privileged preparatory schools in the country, and who must leave.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Believing Betty, a wealthy widow, will be an easy mark, veteran con artist Roy sets in motion a scheme he believes will be a success, but there is reckoning to be made when the endgame of Roy's crooked plot plays out.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 46
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Boston PI Spenser and right hand Hawk follow a con man’s trail of smoke and mirrors in this thrilling entry in Robert B. Parker’s long-running series.
Connie Kelly thought she’d found her perfect man on an online dating site. She fell so hard for handsome, mysterious M. Brooks Welles that she wrote him a check for almost three hundred thousand dollars, hoping for a big return on her investment. But within weeks,...
Connie Kelly thought she’d found her perfect man on an online dating site. She fell so hard for handsome, mysterious M. Brooks Welles that she wrote him a check for almost three hundred thousand dollars, hoping for a big return on her investment. But within weeks,...
14) Lucky
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When talented grifter Lucky Armstrong discovers that a lottery ticket she bought on a whim is worth millions, she must find a way to cash in the winning ticket without the police arresting her for her past crimes.
Author
Series
Girls I've been volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Nora O'Malley, the daughter of a con artist, is taken hostage in a bank heist, every secret she is keeping close begins to unravel.
16) Faking it
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Matilda Goodnight and Davy Dempsey are both trying to get the upper hand with gold-digging Clea Lewis, but they forge a temporary alliance to take on an inept art collector, an exasperated hitman, and a seductive femme fatale.
17) House of games
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A psychiatrist finds herself drawn into the dangerous underworld of a con man when she tries to help a patient whose life has been threatened.
Author
Language
English
Description
After a misstep at a dinner party makes her no longer welcome in Long Island, Alex, gifted with the ability to navigate the desires of others, sticks around, spending the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.
19) The samaritan
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When he leaves prison after twenty-five years, grifter Foley is is determined to put the past behind him, which turns out to be harder then he imagined.
20) Thin ice
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
A struggling insurance salesman turns to a life of crime after being thrown out of his house by his wife.
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