Nobody is mysertious and sexy and intriguing at 16 - it's just impossible. However, for the majority of the novel, I STILL felt that it really should have been people in their early tweenties as opposed to Teens. I suppose for about fifteen seconds I found the premise of this novel ridiculous before I recalled that The Fox sisters started when they were 10 and 12 and that Frank Abagnale had collected $40,000 from various New York banks around the same time my little brother learned he could tap his head AND rub his tummy in unison. So, Katarina Bishop is a fifteen year old who comes from a family of theives. This is the kind of bad guy that Ally Carter TRIES to create in Heist Society and her failure to really do so is the only let down to what is otherwise a very fun, enjoyable novel to read. The kind of badass where if someone steals from me - they quickly realize their mistakes, shit themselves and set about to rectifying the situation. See, I only wish I was THAT kind of badass. It's enough to say that two days later his mower was returned to his yard. Whoever this man really was and whatever he really did, I won't expound on. His parents gave him their sympathy and inquired as to why he didn't call the police. His very friendly, community conscious neighbour had a mower stollen one night by a couple of drunken goons. My husband once told me a story about a neighbour he had before his family moved to our city. So what if it's a spectacularly impossible job? She's got two weeks, a teenage crew, and hopefully just enough talent to pull off the biggest heist in her family's history-and, with any luck, steal her life back along the way. Caught between Interpol and a far more deadly enemy, Kat’s dad needs her help.įor Kat, there is only one solution: track down the paintings and steal them back. Only a master thief could have pulled this job, and Kat's father isn't just on the suspect list, he is the list. But he has a good reason: a powerful mobster has been robbed of his priceless art collection and wants to retrieve it. Soon, Kat's friend and former co-conspirator, Hale, appears out of nowhere to bring Kat back into the world she tried so hard to escape.

Unfortunately, leaving “the life” for a normal life proves harder than she’d expected.

When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own-scamming her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business behind. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria…to steal the crown jewels. When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her on a trip to the Louvre…to case it.

The heist society