Mystery Heist

When Alex Cassidy and Diane Alison meet by chance at a party in Princeton, New Jersey, there are instant sparks. Both are single parents living in wealthy suburbia, independent, highly competent and seemingly settled in their lives. She runs a successful catering business. He's part of a crew that robs banks, casinos and jewellery stores around the world. Neither realises initially that their lives have overlapped before, or that their shared history and burgeoning relationship will come to threaten everything they love.

Avia might be able to con a rich woman out of 50 million dollars before her vacation to Hawaii, but she's going to need some help to do it. She has to call in people she terms her "cousins" and she has to deal with the fact that she is still an alcoholic and heroin addict. With the help of Benton, can Avia actually pull off this heist and get out of town before it is too late?

Rule number one: Never grift the Illuminati. Fletcher is about to break rule number one. Former con man Fletcher Doyle is finally home after six years in the pen. He’s working a menial job, regaining his bearings in the world, and trying to revive his relationships with his wife and 12-year-old daughter. No easy feat. But when Fletcher and his family go on a mission trip to Detroit - in the company of the condescending church leader who also happens to be his landlord - Fletcher finds his old life waiting for him.

The job went great. Well, except the fact that the employer tried to save a buck or two by killing Cat. And that should have been that. But when Cat gets a visit from the woman she stole the items from originally and threatened with exposure as well as torture, Cat is forced to steal back what she just risked her neck for. Now she’s in a race for her and her daughter’s life against an insane Greek, a blood thirsty employer, and the last employer she just escaped from!

"Tell your boss that I have one of his employees." With those words a kidnapping plot begins in the middle of a high-stakes corporate merger. But the kidnappers' plans don't unfold - they unravel. “If you're thinking of committing the perfect crime, read Charlie Peters’ elegant new thriller first. Find out just how many ways perfection can go wrong.” Dan Hearn, author, Bad August