The Good Thief's Guide to Paris: A Mystery

by Chris Ewan

Overview

Charlie Howard—globe-trotting mystery writer and the most disarming burglar since Cary Grant in It Takes a Thief—is flush with the success of his Paris book reading and a few glasses of wine when he agrees to show a novice how to break into an apartment. The next day, Charlie is hired to steal a painting—from the same address. Coincidence? Perhaps, but then why does a dead body turn up in his living room? And what is he going to do when his charming literary agent, Victoria (who is trusting enough to assume he looks like his author photo), decides they should finally meet face to face?

Nobody ever said a life of suspense was easy, but in Chris Ewan's The Good Thief's Guide to Paris, Charlie, the most disarmingly charming burglar since Cary Grant, soon finds things are getting way out of control.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312578053
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/15/2009
Series:	Good Thief's Guide , #2
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.52(w) x 8.24(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

Chris Ewan, who lives on the Isle of Man, began his crime-writing career with The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam, which was called one the "best books for grownups" by Publishers Weekly and AARP The Magazine, and one of the best thrillers of the year by the London Times. The Huffington Post also named Ewan one of America's favorite British authors in a readers' poll. He is the author of the Good Thief novels and the stand-alone thriller, Safe House.

Editorial Reviews

Fast and funny, Ewan's second offering in the Good Thief series is even better than the first.” —Booklist (Starred Review)

“Charlie Howard ... once again makes a funny, fast-talking narrator in Ewan's delightful second mystery.” —Publishers Weekly

“A feast for the amoral.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Wonderful descriptions of locale, engaging and wacky characters, and an entertaining plot that will leave readers eager for the next book. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal

From the Publisher

A tutorial in larceny leads to a study in homicide. The guy seems harmless enough. Granted, what he wants borders on the bizarre, but then Charlie Howard (The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam, 2007), part-time mystery writer, part-time burglar, full-time scalawag, is plenty bizarre in his own right. They're both part of the scene at Paris Lights, the best known bookstore in France, when the young man with the dazzling smile asks Charlie to make him his protege. He wants Charlie to teach him the fine art of breaking and entering. The target, it turns out, is his very own apartment. Charlie signs on and, when one thing leads to another, finds himself enmeshed in a scheme to filch Picasso's The Guitar Player, currently on display in a carefully guarded Parisian gallery. Or perhaps not quite as carefully as its guardians think. At any rate, Charlie, along with several among the band of entrepreneurial thieves, sees it as vulnerable, and so the game's afoot. Before it's finally over, The Guitar Player has changed locations, the protege has changed sides, and Charlie has changed hair color to elude a gendarmerie eager to have him account for a certain inconvenient dead body. A feast for the amoral, but how many readers will take to a protagonist who unhesitatingly frames a friend in order to save his own hide?

Kirkus Reviews