Never mind that Constance Miller claims to be the Cleopatra's rightful owner and that the Cleopatra was stolen from the Miller family by its current owner's grandfather, Oliver Kelly, from the tomb that Constance's father was excavating in Egypt. Or that Constance was sent to Kat by none other than Visily Romani, the same name that brought Kat out of retirement, the name behind all of Kat's new jobs. Jobs like the Henley, and the job she just finished in Moscow - the one that retrieved a small Cezanne lost during the second World War from the Russian mob. Kat, after all, is the best of the best. Only she is good enough to steal the Cleopatra Emerald and set right the wrong that was done decades before.
Kat doesn't have a choice. The moment the name Romani was spoken, she knows she has to steal the Cleopatra. And with the reluctant help of her best friend, the jaw-droppingly gorgeous billionarie W.W. Hale the Fifth, the skills of her beautiful and beautifully talented cousin, Gabrielle, the explosion-loving Scottish Bagshaw twins and techno-guru Simon completing her team, Kat is confident she can pull off the craziest, riskiest heist in the long history of her family of art thieves. The same heist that went so terribly wrong for her Uncle Eddie in '67 - the heist that Uncle Eddie refuses to talk about, the one that means that under no circumstances can Uncle Eddie find out what Kat plans to pull off.
But even Kat's gift for seeing all the angles of a con isn't enough to break the curse of the Cleopatra. The past has a way of haunting those who mess around with cursed emeralds and doomed love, and not even Katrina Bishop, the girl who robbed the Henley, can escape it. But Katarina Bishop is no common criminal, and when all the odds are against her, she has no problem making her own.
This sequel to Heist Society is fun, fast, fabulous, and full of high stakes thrills! Sleek and chic, Uncommon Criminals is James Bond crossed with Mission: Impossible and Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief (I loooooooove Grace Kelly - and who doesn't love Bond's high-tech gadgets?). Racing against the clock for a final showdown at the Casino Monte Carlo in Monaco, Kat and her team jet to Austria, New York, Moscow, Lyon, and plot the world's biggest heist in Uncle Eddie's New York brownstone kitchen and on Hale's luxurious yacht off the coast of Monaco. Savor what's left of summer with this delicious read and check it out @ the library!
Megan
(now reading Blood Red Road, a post-apocalyptic adventure set on a Tattooine-esque Earth - I think Kat would totally want main character and tough girl Saba on her team!)