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Language
English
Description
"Hairstylist Jess Greene has spent the last decade raising her younger half-sister, Tegan--and keeping a shocking secret. Ever since their reckless mother ran off with a boyfriend she'd known only a few months, Jess has been aware that he's the same accomplished con man who was the subject of a wildly popular podcast, The Last Con of Lynton Baltimore. Now thirty-one, Jess didn't bargain on Tegan eventually piecing together the connection for herself....
2) Paper moon
Author
Publisher
Four Walls Eight Windows
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
"Addie Pray, eleven, and her father are con artists who travel the South before they join a more sophisticated schemer who plans their ultimate con." *** "The death of eleven-year-old Addie Pray's mother leaves her in the care of Long Boy, a man who may or may not be her biological father, and together they set out to con their way through the Deep South in the middle of the Great Depression."
3) The frame-up
Author
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
"Dani Poissant is the daughter and former accomplice of the world's most famous art thief. There was no job too big for Maria and her loyal crew. The secret to their success? A little thing called magic, kept rigorously secret from the non-magical world. They seemed unstoppable... until a teenage Dani turned her mother over to the FBI. Ten years later, with Maria still in prison, Dani finds herself approached for a job that only Maria and her crew...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Blankman: He has no superpowers, no money and no name. He's Blankman, a self-appointed neighborhood crimestopper who's so broke that he fights crime in his underwear.
Mo' money: A lifelong con-man meets a girl and tries to impress her by cleaning up his act and doing things the honest way.
Little man: When a stolen diamond is stashed in the home of a wannabe father and his workaholic wife, a pint-sized jewel thief poses as the world's ugliest baby...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Was the world's wealthiest woman--Liliane Bettencourt--heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L'Oreal fortune, the victim of a con man? Or were her own family the real villains? This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the cause celebre that has captivated both France and the world. Liliane Bettencourt is the world's richest woman and the eleventh wealthiest person on the planet, as of 2016. But at ninety-four, she's...