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Title Statement | A beautiful crime: a novel / Christopher Bollen. |
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Author | Bollen, Christopher, 1975- |
Publication | New York, NY: Harper,[2020]©2020 |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 377 pages |
ISBN | 0062853880 9780062853882 |
Other Number | 3690203 |
Summary | When Nicholas Brink leaves New York City to join Clay Guillory in Italy, he thinks he knows what he's getting into. His more experienced boyfriend has come into a small inheritance from an eccentric bohemian artist: the windfall consists of counterfeit heirlooms as well as a share in a decrepit Venetian palazzo. Clay hopes to use Nick's connection to an antiques dealer to unload the fake silver on a brash, unsuspecting American. Clay's smarts and Nick's charm are the keys to pulling off their scheme. Nick is no naive pawn--he takes quickly to Venice's magic and beauty and embeds himself in the city's monied social orbit. Clay, meanwhile, finds in the Floating City a chance to settle old scores. After pulling off their initial con, however, Nick decides that more money can be made in Venice to set them up for life--even if their next move involves drastically greater risks. As it turns out, nothing in Venice is as it seems, and more than one life stands in the way of their happiness. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Young gay men--Fiction |
Inheritance and succession--Fiction | |
Product counterfeiting--Fiction | |
Swindlers and swindling--Fiction | |
Deception--Fiction | |
Risk-taking (Psychology)--Fiction | |
By Location | Venice (Italy)--Fiction |
By Genre | Suspense fiction |
Psychological fiction |