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Their method of escape? Selling a collection of counterfeit antiques to a brash.
Nick and Clay are running away from their turbulent lives in New York City, each desperate for a happier, freer future someplace else.
When Nick Brink and his boyfriend Clay Guillory meet up on the Grand Canal in Venice, they have a plan in mind--and it doesn\'t involve a vacation.
Terrific.--People, Book of the WeekFrom the author of The Destroyers comes an intricately plotted and elegantly structured (Newsday) story of intrigue and deception, set in contemporary Venice and featuring a young American couple who have set their sights on a risky con. a compelling take on the eternal question of how good people morph into criminals.
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Tacking between Venice\'s soaring aesthetic beauty and its imminent tourist-riddled collapse, Bollen delivers a brilliantly conceived international Crime story (Good Morning America).
But it is also a meditation on love, class, race, sexuality, and the legacy of bohemian culture.
A Beautiful Crime is a twisty grifter novel with a thriller running through its veins.
Their future awaits, but it is built on disastrous deceits, and more than one life stands in the way of their dreams.
As Nick falls under the spell of the city\'s decrepit magic, Clay comes to terms with personal loss and the price of letting go of the past.
As it turns out, tricking a millionaire out of money isn\'t as easy as it seems, especially when Clay and Nick let greed get the best of them.
With Clay\'s smarts and Nick\'s charm, their scheme is sure to succeed.
Their method of escape? Selling a collection of counterfeit antiques to a brash, unsuspecting American living out his retirement years in a grand palazzo.
Nick and Clay are running away from their turbulent lives in New York City, each desperate for a happier, freer future someplace else.
When Nick Brink and his boyfriend Clay Guillory meet up on the Grand Canal in Venice, they have a plan in mind--and it doesn\'t involve a vacation.
Terrific.--People, Book of the WeekFrom the author of The Destroyers comes an intricately plotted and elegantly structured (Newsday) story of intrigue and deception, set in contemporary Venice and featuring a young American couple who have set their sights on a risky con. a compelling take on the eternal question of how good people morph into criminals.
An O Magazine Best Book of the Year Stylish..
