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Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 29
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The blatant acts of a lady swindler posing as Nancy Drew arouse the suspicion of friends and local police against the real Nancy.
22) The white cat
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them.
Author
Series
Little blue envelopes volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ginny Blackstone precipitously travels from her home in New Jersey to London when she receives a message from an unknown man telling her he has the letters that were stolen just before she completed a series of mysterious tasks assigned by her now dead aunt, an artist.
24) Red glove
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When federal agents learn that seventeen-year-old Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, may be of use to them, they offer him a deal to join them rather than the mobsters for whom his brothers work.
Author
Series
The Agency volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1880s New York, on the run for a murder she didn't commit, grifter Una Kelly takes refuge in Bellevue Hospital nursing school where she slowly gains friendship and self-respect until she is forced to choose between her instinct for self-preservation and exposing her identity in order to save others.
27) City of lies
Author
Series
Counterfeit lady volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York, 1917. Elizabeth Miles makes a dangerous enemy when she cons a brutal and greedy entrepreneur out of a great deal of money. With his thugs hot on her trail, Elizabeth seizes the moment to blend in with a group of privileged women campaigning for women's' suffrage and an unlikely bond is formed"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The FBI had one demand when they secretly teamed up Special Agent Kate O'Hare with charming con man Nicolas Fox -- bring down the world's most-wanted and untouchable felons. This time it's the brutal leader of a global drug-smuggling empire. The FBI doesn't know what their target looks like, where he is, or how to find him, but Nick Fox has a few tricks up his sleeve to roust this particular Knipschildt chocolate-loving drug lord. From the streets...
29) A million to one
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An acrobat, an actress, an artist, and a thief, four girls who seemingly have nothing in common, work together and plot a heist to steal the Rubaiyat off the Titanic"--
Author
Series
Discworld (Young adult) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.
31) Speedy
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2010], p1996
Language
English
Description
Arriving in a dirtwater town by train, a young con artist named Speedy is soon scamming, brawling, and breaking hearts all over town, with no one to stand in his way except a woman who is determined to win his love.
Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long courtship by mail, he's shocked that she doesn't match the photographs sent with her correspondence. But Durand has told his own fibs, concealing from her the details of his wealth, and so he mostly feels fortunate to find her so much more beautiful than expected. Soon after they marry, however, he becomes increasingly convinced that the woman in his life...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Nicolas Fox is a charming con man and master thief on the run. Kate O'Hare is the FBI agent who is hot on his trail. At least that's what everyone thinks. In reality, Fox and O'Hare are secretly working together to bring down super-criminals the law can't touch. Criminals like brutal casino magnate Evan Trace. Evan Trace is running a money-laundering operation through his casino in Macau. Some of his best customers are mobsters, dictators, and global...
34) Smoke in mirrors
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A con artist and seductress, Meredith Spooner lived fast-and died young. But her final scam-embezzling more than a million dollars from a college endowment fund-is coming back to haunt Leonora Hutton. The tainted money is stashed away in an offshore account for Leonora. And while she wants nothing to do with the cash, she discovers two other items in the safe-deposit box: a book about Mirror House-the place where Meredith engineered her final deception...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Someone has created a fake social media identity and is online romancing the lonely women of Sinful in order to scam them out of money. Because he always seems to pick the perfect targets, Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie think he must be either a Sinful resident or someone with a close association to the town. Playing with emotions for pay is dirty pool, but the game turns deadly when one of the women is murdered. Fortune decides the victim must...
37) Swindle
Author
Series
Swindle mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.
38) Wyndcross
Author
Series
Families of Dorset volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lady intent on refusing the fortune she desperately needs. A gentleman caught up in a smuggling scheme. Kate Matcham needs a fortune or a husband. She wants neither. With a tainted inheritance in the balance, she receives one offer to become a scoundrel's mistress and another offer of a marriage of convenience. Before resigning herself to a choice, she accepts the invitation to visit a childhood friend, considering it a last hurrah before embarking...
39) The gatecrasher
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fleur Daxeny gatecrashes funerals in the hopes of picking up rich and vulnerable men, but when she becomes involved with Richard Favour, she discovers that she is in too deep, and that she wants more than his money.
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