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1) 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.
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 19
Language
English
Description
Hand-picked by a million-dollar client for his undercover dealings with MI6, Stone Barrington is made a partner at the Woodman & Weld law firm before learning that the lucrative new client may be a Bernie Madoff in disguise.
3) 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
Cassie Dewell novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Cassie Dewell has her hands full with two cases—finding the man who conned a wealthy Florida widow out of her fortune, which takes her to Montana, and decoding a poem that promises buried treasure to one lucky adventurer, which has led to five deaths.
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.
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
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.
10) Maestra
Author
Series
Maestra novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A con artist and femme fatale uses her talents for self-invention to assume various identities and penetrate the invisible clubs of the debonair and wealthy.
12) 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...
13) 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
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.
16) Stone cold fox
Author
Language
English
Description
After years of perfecting the art of the con, Bea sets her sights on Collin Case, the heir to one of the country’s wealthiest families, but Collin’s childhood best friend stands in her way, forcing her to cat-and-mouse game that becomes a matter of life and death.
Author
Language
English
Description
Grifting their way through sunny California, best friends Summer and Leo target Michael Forrester, a self-made billionaire and philanthropist who invites Leo to his private island, but when Leo disappears, Summer infiltrates the island to find the truth—and becomes trapped in a scheme she helped initiate.
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,...
Author
Series
Guardian (Karen Robards) volume 2
Language
English
Description
When a network of assassins target her, Bianca St. Ives learns that a high-risk heist may offer the information she needs to bring down the threat determined to bury her for good.
20) Unplugged
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Relates, in multiple voices, the adventures of a group of youngsters at an electronics-free wellness camp where wealthy, spoiled Jett, leads other campers in trying to stop a criminal.
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