The Confidence Games
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
"Clever and fast-paced and fun!"—Alicia Thompson, USA Today bestselling author of The Art of Catching Feelings
Life's a game, and they've come to play. Two female con artists must pull off the ultimate heist in this rollicking caper.
Emma Oxley and Nellie Yarrow have been inseparable their whole lives. Ever since they reinvented themselves, changing their names and wiping clean their digital footprints, they have made a game of following wherever the next adventure leads and challenging themselves to thefts, street cons, and mind games.
Adhering to only two rules—they will only swindle men, and only ones who deserve it—Emma and Nellie are secure in their reputation as the most trustworthy swindlers on the European black market. Until suddenly, they must play to save their own lives.
Blackmailed into stealing a priceless bracelet from a high-security exhibit, Emma will reexamine everything she believed to be true. This heist takes her far beyond her comfort zone...and she and Nellie will need allies among the glitzy bejeweled gathering in London in order to survive. Will they be able to do the right thing before it’s too late?
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Two swindling besties get in over their heads in this effervescent caper from Amy, who writes the Marion Lane historical mysteries as T.A. Willberg. After an ugly breakup, shy Emma Oxley reunites with her brash childhood best friend, Nellie Yarrow, who convinces her to cut a champagne-drenched swath through the grand hotels and exclusive clubs of Europe, stealing luxury goods from bad men along the way. They swear only to rob from those they believe deserve much worse, and soon develop a reputation as some of the most squeaky-clean purveyors of stolen goods on the dark web. But when a mysterious man kidnaps Nellie, then blackmails Emma into stealing a priceless bracelet from a museum exhibit, she might have to break her own rules of conduct. As Emma attempts to appease, then track down, Nellie's kidnappers, she gets tangled in a dangerous web of criminal activity, and must turn to some of the men she's swindled for help extricating herself. With plenty of gleaming locales to satisfy armchair travelers and an engrossing crime plot to boot, this has the makings of a series. Fans of Janet Evanovich and Elle Cosimano will be pleased.
