Heist Thrillers

Shaeffer is an old-school heistman. You need an armored car taken or a football stadium's gate receipts lifted, you call Shaeffer and his buddies. But the world is fast moving to a cashless economy. Everyone is paying with Paypal, debit cards, or electronic fund transfers these days. Join an aging heistman as he tries to deal with an increasingly high-tech society, feeling more and more left behind.

Nada encubre más rápido un gran secreto que una tumba fresca. Alguien con un bisturí y una mesa de embalsamar está colocando cadáveres a nombre de otras personas. ¡4.4 Estrellas en 844 Comentarios de US Amazon Kindle! Pete Talbott, un ajetreado informático de Boston, aún está de luto por la muerte de su esposa, cuando se encuentra en el extremo equivocado de la 45 de Gino Parini leyendo su propia esquela arrancada del periódico de la mañana. Talbott cree que se trata de un gran error, hasta que Parini le enseña también la esquela de su mujer, y ése es un misterio que Pete ...

Romanian Jewel Thief Viviana Petki knows she has kleptomania, but is she a sociopath, too? Returning from Saint-Tropez, where she stole the priceless Portensia diamond, she escapes the suspicions of US Customs by slipping the diamond into someone else’s suitcase. Only a sociopath would frame a random stranger without a second’s hesitation, yes? The hunt is on to find the suitcase’s owner and retrieve the diamond. But the search leads to much more than she’d bargained for. What she finds imperils not only her life, but that of her fourteen-year-old cousin—the one who has an ...

Told always with wit, candidness and a shade of pride, these remarkable stories see Lupin as a master criminal, lead detective, hopeless romantic and even champion of justice. Including ‘Two Hundred Thousand Francs Reward!’ in which Lupin offers a reward for the capture of himself, and ‘The Invisible Prisoner’ where he investigates the case of a man who mysteriously disappeared from a locked room, this brilliantly entertaining collection cements itself as a classic of the crime genre.

Sull'isola della Ginestra, un piccolo scoglio verde al centro di un lago, la villa della famiglia Reffi è il rifugio sicuro per il vecchio Antonio, medico otorino dall'ironia affilata, e i suoi due figli. Carla, la maggiore, si dedica alla scrittura tra le frecciatine del genitore. Celestino, il fratello minore, è diventato medico per esaudire le preghiere del padre ma preferisce rivolgere il suo intuito alla matematica. Con i cugini spiantati Vittorio e Jole e le due domestiche, gli abitanti del Ginestrin sono al completo.

Things were finally starting to look up for Lucie Rizzo. She has a thriving new business, a new outlook on life, and, most importantly, she never has to live under the shadow of her family ever again. No more mob-princess-shenanigans. This time, she’s determined to keep it that way. So when an art deal she brokered between clients turns suspicious, it’s up to Lucie to uncover the truth. She might not know the difference between Monet and Manet, but Rizzos are no strangers to jail time, and Lucie refuses to be caught up in the mafia-mix again.

Will Chen, a Chinese American art history student at Harvard, has spent most of his life learning about the West—its art, its culture, all that it has taken and called its own. He believes art belongs with its creators, so when a Chinese corporation offers him a (highly illegal) chance to reclaim five priceless sculptures, it's surprisingly easy to say yes.

Mining diamonds is a lucrative business, but it soon proves itself deadly. Shortly after Kubu joins the CID, the richest diamond mine in the world is robbed of 100,000 carats of diamonds in transit. The robbery is well-executed and brutal. Police immediately suspect an inside job, but there is no evidence of who it could be. When the robbers are killed execution-style in South Africa and the diamonds are still missing, the game changes, and suspicion focuses on a witch doctor and his son.

Three thieves have planned the perfect diamond heist. They've monitored the Hatton Garden jeweller for months and are ready to make the hit. But they were not expecting a rival crew to show up at exactly the same time. After a bloody fight, the three thieves come away with the diamonds and set off to meet their buyer in Amsterdam. But now it's not only the police who are chasing them - and not only the diamonds that are at stake.

Late at night, Sheriff Jeff McQuede is awakened by a frantic pounding on his door. Arden Reed, his rival for Loris Conner, pleads for his help in finding Loris, who has been kidnapped. Reed claims she possesses a metal cross that will lead to a Spanish cave filled with history-changing artifacts.

Mitch thought he would just be training under his mantracking mentor in the North Woods—until a killing spree began outside of a small town. When a botched heist goes horribly wrong, three thieves are forced to flee into the rugged wilderness in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Soon, Mitch, along with his mentor and a fellow classmate, are thrust into a federal manhunt to track down the murderous trio before they can escape. Using all of their fieldcraft and tactical experience, the elite team soon discovers that the killers are skilled survivalists who plan to turn the tables on their ...

Blood Shadows in Madrid A haunting mystery of betrayal, obsession, and the dark secrets that linger in Madrid’s shadowy corners When Diego Doria, a troubled detective from Málaga, receives a desperate call from his estranged girlfriend, Macarena, he can’t ignore it. She’s being hunted by figures from her past—women who claim to be Tlahuelpuchi, vampiresses from Mexican folklore. Driven by a mix of loyalty and unresolved feelings, Diego heads to Madrid, where the city’s glittering streets hide shadows deeper than he imagined. Madrid becomes a character in its own right: from the ...

Tragedy. Desperation. Innocence in peril. A figure from the past is leveraging what Sorrow Hunter loves to rope her into any illegal venture that serves him, his queen, and his pawns. Sorrow must destroy her family to save them, but everyone who knows Black Pantha knows there are no strings attached, no boundaries, and no mercy when it comes to her foes. In Respect My Gansta 3, watch as a once-cohesive family and crew become wary of each other, husbands and wives, friends, siblings, and lovers pitted against each other, and Black Pantha against all. Chess is no longer enough to test one's ...

FOR FIFTEEN HUNDRED YEARS THE TOMB OF THE CHINESE GENERAL HAD REMAINED HIDDEN BENEATH THE PALE YELLOW CLAY OF SHANXI PROVINCE. It lay undisturbed until a twelve-year-old boy fell through the roof. He kept its secret. Fifteen years later, now living in Australia, he tells his friend Charlie of the terror he felt when he had crashed down among the grave goods. Charlie convinces him that they should go to China, back to Shanxi, and break into the general’s tomb a second time, but this time they should loot its ancient artifacts, the jade, the porcelain, the gold and the silver. But are they ...

In the heart of Mississippi, Matt Grant, a straight-laced southern gentleman, finds himself ensnared in a web of deception after being wrongfully accused of the state’s largest burglary. As he navigates the fallout from his ex-wife Sheila and the sinister allegations coupled with the influence of his former father-in-law—a powerful town benefactor—Matt’s trust in the justice system crumbles. Facing mounting charges, including conspiracy to commit murder, he takes an Alford Plea, maintaining his innocence while serving time for a crime he didn’t commit. Released but forever changed...

In 1907, the revolutionary Joseph Djugashvili - who would later take the name Joseph Stalin - met with an old friend, a clerk at the Tiflis branch of the State Bank of the Russian Empire, for a glass of milk. Over talk of national pride, the spirit of the new century and Djugashvili's poetry, they agreed on the beginnings of a plan. With the aid of the Outfit, Djugashvili's hardened crew of 'expropriators', they would pull off the biggest, bloodiest and most daring robbery in Georgia's history, and ruthlessly change the direction of the Bolshevik revolution forever.

John Dortmunder leaves jail with ten dollars, a train ticket, and nothing to make money on but his good name. Thankfully, his reputation goes far. No one plans a caper better than Dortmunder. His friend Kelp picks him up in a stolen Cadillac and drives him away from Sing-Sing, telling a story of a $500,000 emerald that they just have to steal. Dortmunder doesn't hesitate to agree.

Ash was crafted to be a weapon, sharp and lethal, with a criminal's instinct by choice. Now, he is a man shattered by loss, his beloved torn from him, leaving him a ghost in the criminal underworld. But when hope flickers, even in the bleakest heart, it can ignite a firestorm. For Ash, hope comes in two forms: the faint possibility of love and the burning desire for revenge. Both make him a force to be reckoned with. As he delves into the shadows of the city, Ash discovers that his enemies are as elusive as they are deadly. But he's not alone—his "family" of outcasts, each with their own ...

Step into the enchanting world of Pitch Dark by Joseph Miller, a gripping tale where mystery and magic collide in the quaint town of Willow Creek. At the heart of this story lies an extraordinary bookstore, The Book Nook , and its treasured heirloom—a rare, beautifully bound copy of Pride and Prejudice . But this isn’t just any book; it holds secrets that span generations, whispers of hidden treasures, and mysteries waiting to be unraveled. When Emily Thompson discovers a cryptic letter tucked within the pages of her family’s prized possession, she sets off on a journey that will ...

The Sūn Collection auction of Qing Dynasty snuff bottles at the Shangri-la Hong Kong Hotel was highly anticipated. Three super-wealthy international financial magnates wanted the collection, but only one could get it. The winner, Canadian Kyan K. Tomkins, represented by Alastair Hughes, snagged the prize. Tomkins’ British competitor, Sir Benedict Foxcroft, had to settle for two miniature jade Fu Dogs. American Michael C. Bullock was represented by his daughter-in-law, Wu Jing.