The Good Thief’s Guides
Chris Ewan's The Good Thief's Guides are charming, fast-paced reads with amusing, sophisticated, characters, plenty of local colour and convoluted plots where everything falls into place at the end.
Charile Howard, the thief of the titles, is intelligent, self-depreciating, pleasure seeking. It's fun to accompany him as he walks us through the tricks of his trade. You may enjoy learning how to pick a lock. Charlie is also a mystery writer, enjoying the moderate success of this first novel — a thriller with an action-hero. He's enjoying giving readings and autographing books.
Charlie knows he can count on his literary agent, Victoria, to help him work through difficult plot points in the new book he is writing, and part of the fun of the series is how she slowly becomes drawn into helping him work out what is happening in his personal (criminal) life as he finds himself a fall-guy in other people's much grander criminal designs.
In The Good Thief's Guide to Paris she tells Charlie, "The rules say the killer should be introduced early on." "Rules?" "In a mystery novel…That way, we have a fair chance of working out who the killer is." Of course, it turns out that she's right. The killer was introduced early on.
The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam was published in England in 2007. It was followed in 2008 by The Good Thief's Guide to Paris (also in Large Print).
This is the perfect time to put your name in on book three: The Good Thief's Guide to Vegas, which is on-order now at the library.
Gulp down Amsterdam and Paris and get ready to go to Vegas.
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