EVEN GRIFTERS HAVE FAMILIES.
THEY’RE JUST MORE COMPLICATED…
At least Dani Silver’s is. Complicated, unconventional, criminal, and –worst of all to some--downright amoral. But whathehell, family’s family.
A PREQUEL TOLD IN SHORT STORIES....
Duane Lindsay brings to life the tale of this very odd, yet affectionate kinship group in a completely original prequel, told in interconnected short stories, some of them stretching to novellas.And each one chronicling one of their cons.
At its heart, the book is the Byzantine yet surprisingly tender tale of artists in love. Con artists, that is. Meet legendary con Leroy Logan and his crime partner Kate Mulrooney, who’s known reverently in their circle as Fast Kate, an homage to her famous ability to spot a mark at a thousand paces.
Leroy’s a lovable, irresponsible, untrustworthy, unfaithful lazy lug, unlucky at gambling but renowned for criminal brilliance. In other words, the quintessential bad boy.
So of course Kate loves him.
And in spite of himself, he adores her and every one of his children, especially the little redhead who grows up to be a brilliant con herself. Kate, possessed of just as fine a criminal mind, is in many ways Leroy’s opposite— sleek and glamorous, yet as solid and practical as he’s profligate.
And Dani, quite simply, is the cutest kid criminal since Tatum O’Neal in PAPER MOON.
This is fun. I like the novella format for the history of Leroy and Kate; they lead up to the daughter coming into her own as a con artist.
I got stuck with only my purse kindle and no wireless, so pulled up a book which was already loaded: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and David McKean.
Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place—he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings—such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him.
Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead?
I am loving this book! Gaiman is a master storyteller.
I finished the first book in Society for Paranormals: The Complete 10 Book Supernatural Cozy Mystery Series before I got into the Grifter series. I think I will read book 2 before I read book 2 of the Grifters. They are different enough to not be confusing. (unlike the time I was reading a Sisterhood book on one Kindle and a Men of the Sisterhood on the other. I do not recommend this)
Armed with Victorian etiquette, a fully loaded walking stick, and a dead husband, Miss Beatrice Knight arrives in the small colonial town of Nairobi desperate for a pot of tea and a pinch of cinnamon.
This collection brings together for the first time, all 10 books in the Society for Paranormals cozy mystery series in which a paranormal detective refuses to let danger, death, and unsolicited suitors inconvenience her in colonial Kenya. Welcome to a cozy mystery series concerning Victorian etiquette, African mythology, and the search for a perfect spot of tea.
This is going to be a fun series
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