Stolen Pieces

by S.K. Golden

Overview

OCEAN'S 8 meets Janet Evanovich, this fast-paced crime caper features one badass mother, with a certain set of skills who is forced to come out of retirement to protect her son, and teach a few men a few lessons!

Ex-con artist Bee Cardello is going legit. Divorced from her mafia boss husband, she is determined to stay on the straight and narrow. So, when ex-hubby Charlie steals $37.5 million from a dangerous kingpin, who puts out a hit on Bee and her ten-year-old son Oliver, she finds herself pulled back into the life she's worked so hard to escape.

Part of that old life being one Adam Gage - an old flame and all-round sexy badass who Charlie's now employed to keep her and Oliver safe . . . well, that's what he tells her. Bee has been in this game long enough to know that everyone is in it for themselves, and she'd be stupid to trust Adam . . . again.

When Oliver is snatched from right under their noses, rather than risk losing him forever, Bee gathers her old team, dusts off all her old grifting tricks, and comes out of retirement to get her son back!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781448315710
Publisher:	Severn House
Publication date:	01/28/2025
Edition description:	Main
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

S.K. Golden was born and raised in the Florida Keys, where she married a commercial fisherman. The two of them still live on the islands with their five kids (one boy, four girls - including identical twins!), two cats, and a corgi named Goku. Sarah graduated from Saint Leo Universitywith a bachelor's degree in Human Services and Administration and has put it to good use approximately zero times. She's worked as a bank teller, a pharmacy technician, and an executive assistant at her father's church. Sarah is delighted to be doing none of those things now.

Editorial Reviews

This first novel - and likely the first in a series - effectively evokes the social milieu of the late 1950s, hiding Evelyn's intellect behind a fluffy indulged fa ade

Booklist on The Socialite’s Guide to Murder

This book has all the things I love in a mystery novel - a unique sleuth, a quirky cast of suspects, and a twisty whodunnit

C. J. Archer

A catty yet decorous whodunit festooned with period trappings

Kirkus Reviews on The Socialite’s Guide to Murder

Gangsters, thieves, CIA agents, double-crossing allies, and a foul-mouthed forger with a heart of gold. Your move

Kirkus Reviews

The Socialite's Guide to Murder is nonstop entertainment - at turns witty, charming, touching, and spellbinding

award-winning author of the Fiona Figg Mysteries Kelly Oliver

The heroine's serenely coy sensibility vividly evokes the 1950s

Kirkus Reviews on The Socialite’s Guide to Death and Dating

Blood and gore, white-knuckle suspense, clever double-crosses, wacky humor, and colorful characters plus a happy ending make this the perfect escapist read

Booklist

With her creation of an intriguing upstairs/downstairs world, Golden channels the spirit of the late Hugh Pentecost's Beaumont Hotel. Readers will be eager to check into Evelyn's next adventure

Publishers Weekly on The Socialite’s Guide to Murder

2024-02-17
A retired art forger is tossed back into peril when the victim of her ex-husband’s latest caper puts out a hit on her and her 10-year-old son.

In her day, Beatrice Cardello broke every rule in the book. Recruited as a forger by Thomas Osbourn, her gambling father’s creditor, she traveled the world executing copies of famous paintings, at least one of which hangs in a museum unaware of the switch. But all that’s behind her—until her ex-teammate and ex-lover Adam Gage turns up to warn her of big trouble: Charlie Cardello, Bee’s mobbed-up ex-husband, has not only taken up with Cassie, a 21-year-old, but gone a step further by lifting $37.5 million from Cassie’s kingpin uncle, Theo Alvarez, who’s sworn vengeance on Charlie (no great loss) and his family (even if they’re not legally his family anymore). Calling on Oliver’s improbably resourceful nanny, Malika, for help, Bee hastens into hiding. But all of them are snatched by someone who’s under orders from one of the major players. From that point on, Bee’s minute-by-minute life becomes a nonstop attempt to strike acceptable deals with Alvarez, who wants his money back; with Charlie, who wants to maintain his lifestyle; and with Adam, who wants to resume his affair with Bee. Fans of Golden’s earlier cozies will appreciate the content warning that opens this funhouse: “While Stolen Pieces is a light-hearted story overall, there is a mention of miscarriage/stillbirth, as well as depictions of violence throughout.” You can say that again.

Gangsters, thieves, CIA agents, double-crossing allies, and a foul-mouthed forger with a heart of gold. Your move.

Kirkus Reviews