From Booklist
Kellogg's cat burglar heroine, Kick Kewswick, makes a welcome return in a tale so lush and lavish readers won't know what to sigh over first, the descriptions of gorgeous jewelry or marvelous meals. The mystery element isn't bad either. Kick has retired from crime to live comfortably in--where else?--Provence with her new husband, Thomas, who has recently left Scotland Yard. But when Thomas seemingly deserts her and an imposter burglar using Kick's old moniker, the Shamrock Burglar, starts stealing jewels, Kick knows she needs to get back in the game. This is a small gem, as carefully crafted as a Cartier bijou. Kellogg tells the story in Kick's inimitable voice, and it's as much fun to hear her describe her magnificent outfits and accessories as it is to listen to her plot crimes. And like a ring set in platinum, the Italian Riviera landscape makes a gorgeous backdrop for Kick's escapades. Ilene Cooper
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Kick Keswick has lived an extraordinary life. For twenty-five years she was the power behind the throne at a venerable London auction house and a master jewel thief (stealing only from those who deserved it, of course). All that changed when she fell in love with Commander Thomas Curtis of Scotland Yard and retired to live respectably in Provence, surrounded by beautiful food, wine, and picnics in lavender-filled fields. But now someone is stealing irreplaceable jewels from Paris to Portofino - and using Kick's signature techniques. And to make matters worse, Thomas has disappeared with her secret cache of precious stones. It looks like someone is trying to lure Kick out of retirement, and perhaps Thomas is involved.
FROM THE CRITICS
Kirkus Reviews
Another episode in the remarkable career of international jewel thief and connoisseur Kick Keswick follows her to France, where she's in pursuit of a copycat burglar trying to pin a rap on her. Readers of earlier installments will remember Kick (Brilliant, 2003, etc.) as a tough girl from Oklahoma who overcame a delinquent childhood to achieve fame and fortune in the most rarefied European circles as a happily delinquent adult. As secretary to and mistress of London auctioneer Sir Cranmer Ballantine, Kick got to know the world of art and jewelry from the inside, and she put her knowledge to good use as a cat burglar who in a few short years amassed the world's largest secret cache of priceless jewels. As befitted a woman of style, Kick always left a calling card behind-a bouquet of shamrocks-leading the press to christen her "The Shamrock Burglar." Now married to ex-Scotland Yard detective Thomas Curtis, Kick has been on the straight and narrow for nearly a year, retired in matrimonial bliss in Provence with the only man in the world who knows her true identity. But the honeymoon comes crashing down when Kick gets up one morning to find Thomas gone, and her own wall safe emptied of some of her most prized acquisitions. The next day the papers are full of accounts of a necklace stolen in Paris by someone who's left a bouquet of shamrocks behind. Is Thomas (who has a secret past of his own) framing Kick? Or trying to save her hide? Kick can't wait for an answer, so off she goes to crack the case. Send a thief to catch a thief? That's been told before, but this one has a few twists that even Hitchcock never came up with. A delightful caper: Fast-paced, atmospheric, and wryly amusing, theKick saga (like the Dom Perignons Kick is so fond of) has aged well and lost none of its fizz. Agent: Robert Gottlieb/Trident Media Group
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