Con artist Kidd and his partner-in-crime are about to pull off the perfect sting-until they find themselves on the wrong end of the ultimate con.

A collection of quirky short stories about life in modern-day France. The characters of these twelve stories are full of new hopes, futile dreams, and despair. They do not seek to change the world. Whatever happens to them, they have nothing to prove. They are not heroic. Just human. You come across them every day without paying attention, not realising the burden they carry. Suitable for self-study, building vocabulary, and developing reading skills....

“Hard-boiled computer hacker Kidd and his sometime girlfriend LuEllen make for a refreshingly roguish couple” (Entertainment Weekly). Now they’re back in #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford’s electrifying novel of murder, intrigue, and revenge—Kidd style.
When Kidd’s superhacker friend Bobby is murdered and his laptop is stolen, Kidd knows it’s panic time. The secrets stashed in Bobby’s...

Lulu needs help from a boy named Fleischman if she is to earn money walking her neighbors' dogs, and she finds out that if she wants her business venture to succeed, she has to be nice.

"When Lulu's next-door neighbor doesn't seem to be looking after his rabbit properly, Lulu and her cousin Mellie devise a scheme to make him pay more attention to his pet"--

When he returns to Terrebone Parrish to see his dying grandmother, injured Navy SEAL Justin "Cage" Le Blanc must face his past--and blues singer Emelie Gaudet, the love of his life, whose heart he broke when he left town.

At the end of yet another unproductive job interview, Lulu, on a whim, takes off for the shore just to get away from it all. She's got a husband and kids left bewildered but it's nothing against them. This is just her time, getting away from the grind and with no other plan than savoring it. Surprised at her own temerity, she meets other people on the edge of the world. It wasn't meant to be for long. It wasn't meant to be anything but in the end...