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by Patrick Radden Keefe
Published Apr 2026
Read ReviewsFrom the bestselling, prize-winning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which drew him into the dangerous criminal underworld that lies beneath London's glittering surface.
by B. A. Shapiro
Published May 2013
Read ReviewsOn March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there's more to this crime than meets the eye.
by Carson Morton
Published Oct 2012
Read ReviewsWhat happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot-tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one priceless painting?
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit
by Mark Seal
Published Apr 2012
Read ReviewsA real-life Talented Mr. Ripley, the unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man.
by Edward Dolnick
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsThe little-known world of art theft is compellingly portrayed in Dolnick's account of the 1994 theft and recovery of Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
by David Sinclair
Published Jan 2005
Read ReviewsThe bizarre tale of a 19th century land swindle by 'Sir Gregor MacGregor', who conned hundreds of people into buying land in a country that didn't exist; a fact they didn't discover until they'd traveled half way round the world to Central America to claim their property.
It was one of the worst speeches I ever heard ... when a simple apology was all that was required.
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