"During a summer internship at ELLE magazine, aspiring writer Lora Ricci strikes up a friendship with contributing editor Cat Wolff, the enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul, who convinces Lora to drop out of NYU and become her ghostwriter."--

When confidence man Beano X. Bates is caught cheating at cards, New Jersey Mafia boss Joe "Dancer" Rina beats him so badly that he nearly dies. Then Beano's cousin Carol is brutally murdered just before she was to testify against Rina. In revenge Beano teams up with a woman prosecutor -- she is also out to get Joe -- and together they play a con game that will set other gangsters against Rina and put him away. The unlikely pair trek from Atlantic...

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.

The Confidence Man (1857) is a novel by American writer Herman Melville. After the failure of his novels Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852), Melville struggled to find a publisher who would accept his work. When it was published, The Confidence Man was seen as a flawed, unnecessarily complicated novel, and beyond several collections of poetry, it all but ended Melville's career as a professional writer. When Melville's work was...

FBI agent Drex Easton is relentlessly driven by a single goal: to outmaneuver the conman once known as Weston Graham. Over the past thirty years, Weston has assumed many names and countless disguises, enabling him to lure eight wealthy women out of their fortunes before they disappeared without a trace, their families left without answers and the authorities without clues. The only common trait among the victims: a new man in their life who also vanished,...

"From the author of the award-winning story collection REASONS FOR AND ADVANTAGES OF BREATHING, a debut novel set in 1916 Tennessee that follows two flawed but appealing grifters--one older man, and one younger--in their pursuit of women, wealth, and a surprisingly valuable commodity for the troops in Europe: mules"--

"Straight arrow FBI Agent Kate O'Hare always plays by the rules. Charming con man Nicholas Fox makes them up as he goes along. She thinks he's nothing but a scoundrel. He thinks she just needs to lighten up. They're working together to tackle the out-of-bounds cases ordinary FBI agents can't touch. And, their relationship? Well, there hasn't been so much explosive chemistry since Nitro was introduced to Glycerin. Next on the docket: The mysterious...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Prey series comes a crime novel of “classic stings” (Booklist).
With the same sharp human insight he brings to the murderers and manhunters of his bestselling Prey novels, Sanford takes us into the minds of two irresistible con artists. Kidd and LuEllen are a winning pair of lovers and liars plotting the ultimate sting. Their target is the wealthy (and corrupt)...

"Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose head to Florida where they uncover a scam at a local space memorabilia attraction." --

When their long-imprisoned con-artist father reaches the end of his life, Arthur and his twin sister become the owners of an undiscovered play by William Shakespeare that their father wants published, a final request that represents either a great literary gift or their father's last great heist.