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Bay of Thieves

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Vanessa and Kate live a glamorous life in the South of France helping the rich stay richer by hiding their money. While they know it's wrong, that their clients are corrupt, they are professionals and good at their jobs. Plus, there is the money . . .

When their boss draws them deeper into his web of corruption, the chic veneer of their existence falls away, along with their excuses, leaving both women dangerously exposed to the lures of greed, gambling and hazardous liaisons. Vanessa and Kate become desperate for an escape route, a way to beat the system without destroying themselves, but the only ones available make them worse than those they are seeking to evade. While one woman pulls away from corruption, the other is drawn in. But just how far will each of them go for money - their clients' and their own - before a woman is killed?

Amidst the opulence of the Côte D'Azur, Bay of Thieves explores the distorting power of wealth and its ability to destroy beliefs held over a lifetime.

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A classy, gripping thriller about power, corruption and wealth, and a deeply human drama where so much lies at stake.
Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory
A timely, gripping, and richly nuanced financial thriller that exposes the Riviera's seedy underbelly, from money laundering and sanctions dodging to human trafficking, in a web of greed and corruption that ensnares everyone unlucky enough to come within the grasp of glamour
Chris Pavone, author of Two Nights in Lisbon
Spinning as relentlessly as a roulette wheel, Bay of Thieves is a vivid and an entertaining immersion into the deliciously corrupted excess of the Cu00f4te d'Azur, where even the best of intentions can fatally run aground
Dan Fesperman, author of Winter Work
Bay of Thieves has the glamour and suspense of a high-stakes game of roulette. This darkly twisting book had me gripped from the start
Ava Glass
A sharply written, clever and classy thrill-ride through the streets of Paris. Atmospheric and twisting
Chris Whitaker on The Messenger
An intelligent, gripping and stylish literary thriller - I couldn't put it down. Megan Davis is a major new talent
Sophie Hannah on The Messenger
A well-written, intriguing novel with an excellent sense of place
Kamila Shamsie on The Messenger

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