Faking Game

THEY DID THE WORST THING YOU CAN DO TO A WOMAN...

And only sweet, sweet revenge will do in Janet Pywell's fourth Mikky dos Santos domestic thriller. Ever rebellious, the reformed European art thief takes on two assailants who stole a gem from her more precious than any work of art - leading her hot on their tails in an international mystery that blends eastern European intrigue with page-turning psychological suspense.

Mikky dos Santos is a changed woman. The ex-forger has traded her life of crime for domestic bliss - these days she's an aspiring portrait photographer and a mom-to-be, expecting a baby girl with her love Eduardo. If it weren't for the vibrant tattoo of Edvard Munch's The Scream prominently displayed on her forearm, she'd be downright domesticated.

But at a birthday celebration in an idyllic Spanish villa, tragedy strikes. Lulled by her newfound domestic happiness, Mikky wanders into the villa kitchen for a midnight snack (for the baby, not her) and unwittingly walks in on two thieves stealing the multi-million euro birthday gift. In the ensuing fray, the most tragic theft isn't that of the priceless work of art - it's the loss of Mikky's daughter.

Wracked with guilt and despair, Mikky is devastated. Truth be told, she's beginning to go a bit mad. And she just can't seem to shake the feeling she knows one of her assailants...

After a grief-stricken Eduardo leaves her, she decides her only course of action is revenge: Find the men who killed her daughter and left her life irrevocably destroyed.

Mikky embarks on a one-woman quest of vigilante justice, tracking the thieves through Spain, Poland, and Estonia, and enlisting help from her past life in the European underworld - much to the delight of armchair travelers and fans of fierce female sleuths, alike. But it's not long before she realizes the art thieves aren't at all who they'd seemed - and her vendetta becomes unimaginably dangerous.

Fans of female sleuths from the YA series HEIST SOCIETY right up to Kinsey Millhone will fall for this vulnerable, kickass adventuress. She has more than tattoos in common with Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series, and she's an irresistible treat for readers who love the complex plots and sly sophistication of movies like OCEAN'S 8 and shows like GOOD GIRLS.


Genre: Mystery