Marne Davis Kellogg

When her art auction company is bought in a hostile takeover by an unscrupulous industrialist, who subsequently seduces her, Kick Keswick finds her secret life threatened and counters with a masterful revenge plot. Reprint.

Brilliant

Auction-house maven and master jewel thief Kick Keswick gives up her life of crime when she falls in love and settles down with Scotland Yard commander Thomas Curtis, but her complacency is shattered when another thief begins emulating her old techniques and Thomas disappears with her secret cache of gems. Reprint.

Priceless

Running back home after news of her affair with a politician leaks out, Lilly Bennett starts up her own international security consulting business and finds her first client in a murdered head of a ranching dynasty. A first novel. National ad/promo.

Bad Manners

Feeling restless after retiring from her exciting double life at the side of her former Scotland Yard inspector husband, Kick Keswick, a secret jewel thief, finds herself back in her element when an old enemy resurfaces and threatens to reveal her numerous past misdeeds. 25,000 first printing.

Friends in High Places

Hired by the Queen of England to recover stolen jewels, international thief and gourmet cook Kick Keswick undertakes an assignment that pits her against an adversary with skills to match her own and brings her to such locales as Provence, St. Moritz, and Milan. By the author of Priceless. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

A Novel

Perfect

Kick Keswick, one of the most charming, enchanting, and best-dressed heroines of fiction, discovers that a life of crime can be impossible to leave behind. Kick Keswick has lived an extraordinary life. For twenty-five years she was the power behind the throne at a venerable London auction house and a master jewel thief. (Stealing only from those who deserved it, of course.) All that changed when she fell in love with Commander Thomas Curtis of Scotland Yard and retired to live respectably in Provence, cushioned in beautiful food and wine. But now someone is stealing irreplaceable jewels from Paris to Portofino---and using Kick's signature techniques. And to make matters worse, Thomas has disappeared with her secret cache of precious stones. It looks like someone is trying to lure Kick out of retirement, and perhaps Thomas is involved. With Marne Davis Kellogg's trademark descriptions of fabulous places, wonderful food, and the ultimate in luxurious living, Priceless is a delicious summer treat.

The Real Thing

A sweeping novel of suspense and intrigue-played out against the glamorous playgrounds of the rich; starring a beautiful and mysterious woman who leaves a path of death and destruction in her wake. Jacqueline du Fidelio is a portrait painter with an international reputation and a dark secret in her past. Loyal only to her butler, closest friend, and confidant, the snobbish, neurotic, and completely amoral Nigel Weatherby-Smith, Jacqueline is fiercely independent--until it comes to affairs of the heart. Her penchant for toxic romantic involvements draws her to the worst kinds of men-from the rakishly unreliable and very married Ryder McCormick, her mother's former lover who has enthralled her since childhood, to Armand Weil, a debonair, fabulously wealthy art dealer who sweeps her off her feet, promises to take care of her forever, and deserts her at the worst possible moment. Junior Hammond, the sybaritic, obese, and uncultured heir to the Hammond oil fortune, finally succeeds in winning her hand in marriage. But like Jacqueline's other liaisons, the romance is soon wrapped in deadly shadows as members of the Hammond family begin to die in mysterious ways whenever Jacqueline is on the scene. Is Jacqueline the innocent victim of careless, uncaring men and circumstances beyond her control, or is she a dangerous manipulator, ruthlessly using her lovers to ensure her own survival? Does her apparent fragility actually mask a cold, lethal core, an insatiable need to prove her invulnerability? Taking readers from the lush hunt country of Virginia to New York City's glamorous art world, from the winter wonderland of Aspen, Colorado to the treacherous mountains of Nepal, Insatiable builds to almost unbearable suspense. It is only in the stunning final pages that we discover the terrible secret that haunts Jacqueline-and may have turned her into a killer.

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