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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"The Thea Sisters are boarding the famouse Orient Express for a journey from Paris to Istanbul! The train is on a special trip to return a precious wedding dress stolen years ago from an Istanbul museum. But there's a rumor that the mysterious Acrobat Thief will steal the gown from the moving train! The Thea Sisters are determined to foil this sneaky mouse's plans" -- p. [4] of cover.
44) Precious cargo
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
After a botched heist, Eddie, a murderous crime boss, hunts down the seductive thief Karen who failed him. In order to win back Eddie's trust, Karen recruits her ex-lover and premier thief Jack to steal a cargo of rare precious gems. But when the job goes down, allegiances are betrayed and lines are crossed as Jack, Karen, and Eddie face off in a fateful showdown.
Author
Series
Description
Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.
The Carabinieri have made a startling discovery in the Amalfi villa of a murdered South African shipping tycoon: a secret vault containing an empty frame and stretcher matching the dimensions...
46) Age of ash
Author
Series
The Kithamar trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countless thousands live and their stories unfold. This is Alys's. When her brother is murdered, a petty thief from the slums of Longhill sets out to discover who killed him and why. But the more she discovers about him, the more she learns about herself, and the truths she finds are more dangerous than knives. Swept up in an intrigue as deep as the roots...
48) Just thieves
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A down and dirty gem of a tale--a twisty and twisted crime novel that evokes the worlds of George V. Higgins, Patricia Highsmith, and David Mamet, destined to be a Neo-noir classic. Rick and Frank are recovering addicts and accomplished house thieves. They do not steal randomly - - they steal according to order, hired by a mysterious handler. The jobs run routinely until they're tasked with taking a seemingly worthless trophy: an object that generates...
50) Hot ice: a novel
Author
Series
Black Rose trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©2005
Description
Jewel thief Taylor Kincaid is caught between violent terrorists and an elite team of global operatives when she inadvertently pockets valuable security codes along with a cache of diamonds during a theft at a South American terrorist compound.
51) Pawn
Publisher
Anchor Bay Films
Pub. Date
2013
Description
An all-night diner. A cop walks in on a robbery in progress. But what happens next, and what happened just before, will change everything you think you know. Now the building is surrounded. There are fingers on every trigger. And one very intense hostage situation is about to take some extremely shocking twists.
52) Dance of thieves
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Description
A formidable outlaw family that claims to be the first among nations. A son destined to lead, thrust suddenly into power. Three fierce young women of the Rahtan, the queen's premier guard. A legendary street thief leading a mission, determined to prove herself. A dark secret that is a threat to the entire continent. A dark secret that is a threat to the entire continent. When outlaw leader meets reformed thief, a cat-and-mouse game of false moves...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 45
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Nancy Drew's latest involvement in a mystery begins in her home town and concerns a synthetic sapphire with a spider embedded in it, and the strange disappearance of Ned Nickerson.
54) The partner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Description
A thriller on the international movement of dirty money, its protagonist is an American lawyer who skips the country with $90 million belonging to crooks. They catch up with him in Brazil, torture him, but he does not know where the money is, his lawyer girlfriend is curculating it around the globe. Extradited to the U.S. to face various charges he is going to use the money to get off.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
Bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr's in love-with an exotic Eastern European beauty who shares his obsession with Humphrey Bogart movies. He's in heaven, munching popcorn with his new amour every night at a Bogart Film Festival-until their Casablanca-esque idyll is cut short by his other secret passion: burglary.
When he's hired to pilfer a portfolio of valuable documents from a Park Avenue apartment, Bernie can hardly refuse. But the occupant's early return...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Growing up during the Depression in the segregated coal-mining town of Slab Fork, West Virginia, the bright and willful Doris Payne dreamed big. Fascinated by the fine clothes, jewels, and lifestyles in magazines such as Town & Country and Harper's Bazaar, she imagined a world beyond herself, one in which she did not carry the weight of limitations that others imposed on her and where her beloved mother was free from her father's abuse. After the...
57) To catch a thief
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A woman falls in love with a reformed jewel thief, but suspects he's active again when a series of jewel heists occur.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
In Greenwich Village, Bernie Rhodenbarr, the rare book dealer who moonlights as a burglar, is arrested for murder in connection with the robbery of a valuable collection of baseball cards. Only he didn't do it. By the author of Burglars Can't Be Choosers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
c1983
Description
It's not that used bookstore owner and part-time burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr believes the less legal of his two professions is particularly ethical. (It is, however, a rush, and he is very good at it. ) He just thinks it's unfair to face a prison term for his legitimate activities. After appraising the worth of a rich man's library -- conveniently leaving his fingerprints everywhere in the process -- Bernie finds he's the cops' prime suspect when his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1980
Description
Bookselling burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr doesn't generally get philosophical about his criminal career. He's good at it, it's addictively exciting-and it pays a whole lot better than pushing old tomes. He steals therefore he is, period.
He might well ponder, however, the deeper meaning of events at the luxurious Chelsea brownstone of Herb and Wanda Colcannon, which is apparently burgled three times on the night Bernie breaks in: once before his visit...
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