Katarina Bishop knows a good con when she sees one - after all, she comes from a long line of professional thieves. So when Hale inherits Hale Industries after the untimely death of family matriarch Hazel, with longtime family lawyer Garrett named as the trustee until Hale comes of age, he is surprised but deeply honored by his grandmother's faith in him to run her beloved company. But when Marcus, Hale's butler, reveals that he is quite sure the will is a fake, Kat doesn't know what to do. She can't let Hale be duped - but she doesn't want him hurt, either.
Instead, Kat sets out to find the real will - and why anyone would want to plant a fake will - without Hale's help or knowledge. Marcus is sure that Hazel must have hidden a copy of her will somewhere before her death - she wasn't the sort of woman to leave Hale Industries to fate. Kat decides to head to Hazel's London offices and search her desk. But it turns out that Hazel's desk, an antique Petrovich puzzle desk with hidden compartments, has recently been loaned for special exhibit. To the Henley. The same Henley that Kat and her team publicly humiliated when they lifted the da Vinci right off the wall a few months ago. The same Henley that now features even more advanced, impossible-to-bypass security.
This time, Kat knows she has to pull the whole family in. The explosion-loving Bagshaw twins, her cousin, the lovely Gabrielle, techno nerd and uber-genius Simon, Uncle Eddie (who not only is in this time, but totally approves), and even Nick, who's supposedly out of the business, but has access to the Henley's blueprints through his mom's Interpol office. Everyone but Hale - whose help they need the most, and whose heart Kat is afraid she is going to lose if he discovers what she's doing. And a heart isn't something you can steal back.
High stakes, heart-pounding suspense and action, heists, secrets and conspiracy, fortunes at stake and fabulous spy gadgetry all make for another fabulous entry in the Heist Society series! Kat is James Bond with a ponytail - you can't resist her charm, even when she's conning her way in to your heart. Sleek, feisty and fierce, Kat will do anything for family - and Hale has been family since the day she stole him instead of his Vermeer. If you loved Heist Society and Uncommon Criminals as much as we did, grab your sunglasses, your grappling hook and a tuck a copy of Perfect Scoundrels into your rappelling harness before you head out to enjoy the spring sunshine!
Megan
(who just started Dark Triumph, the sequel to 2013 MCTBA honor book Grave Mercy, this morning - and already I'm hooked! Nothing says spring reading like assassin nuns. Nothing.)
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