Beautiful Criminals: A Novel

Author: Tipton, Eric

Number Of Pages: 272

Details:

For fans of the Spellman Files comes an irreverent family drama about love, crime, and the ties that bind as three generations of women attempt to go straight…or not. When Amanda Cooper steps foot out of jail, she’s determined to never go back. Two years behind bars means she’s missed her daughter, Taylor, turning into a teenager, and she doesn’t want to lose another moment with her. But as a convicted con artist, Amanda has few options for getting out of Los Angeles and securing her dream life: predictable, boring, and bordered by a white picket fence. The trouble is Amanda’s not the only one with a con. At every step of the way, someone is trying to pull her back into the game. In her first attempt to go straight, Amanda takes a dead end retail job. But she soon discovers that her boss, Russ, is stealing from his employers by the truckload—and wants Amanda in on his crooked plan. Then Amanda gets roped in by FBI Agent Stevens, who reveals another startling truth: Amanda’s mom, Joyce, and her lover, Bruce, are involved in a scheme that smuggles military arms to a cartel. If Amanda can get the FBI agent the information he needs, Joyce will get off scot-free…but if she doesn’t, they’ll all go to the cooler. As Amanda maneuvers and manipulates her way towards some semblance of freedom, she can only win the game by changing the rules. But along the way she takes her eyes off the prize: Taylor. Given her family history, Taylor can’t help but get into her own brand of trouble. Just as Amanda’s new life is within reach, she realizes that her final gamble might mean losing everything.

About the Author:

Eric Tipton has written screenplays for 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, CBS Films, and Electric Entertainment. He has also developed television series projects with Universal Cable Productions, Endemol-Shine, Warner-Horizon Television, and ITV America. He lives in Los Angeles with his very patient wife, daughter, and their three dogs. Beautiful Criminals is his first book. Susanna Rosenblum is a citizen of the world. She loves love, yoga, reading, skiing, seasons, food trucks, the beach, road trips, outdoor concerts, and anyplace that you can walk barefoot. She has recently become a very slow runner of 10Ks and is happy to finish before they turn off the clock. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Beautiful Criminals 1 Amanda stepped into the parking lot as Tiny (that’s what they called her on the inside, anyway) locked the gate behind her with an awful vibrating clang. Amanda prayed that Tiny would send her off with some words of encouragement and not some disparaging, crass, sexual innuendo. She wanted to start her new life with confidence in the sisterhood and womankind. But it was fifty-fifty with Tiny. You never knew what you were going to get. “Hey, Candy Girl.” Candy Girl was Amanda’s nickname in prison. Perhaps because Candy rhymed with Mandy. Or because her cellmate, Jocelyn, started singing that New Edition song in falsetto whenever Amanda walked by. Amanda was apparently Jocelyn’s “world.” (And there were other implications that Amanda shuddered to think about.) Sometimes they also called her “White Collar” because of her whiteness, obviously, but also the nature of her crimes. They eventually abbreviated this to just “Collah.” “Candy Girl,” Tiny said again as Amanda turned to look at her. Tiny’s entire body fit between two rails of the steel gate. She held up a miniature thumb and said, “You got this, Collah.” “Thanks, Tiny. Good luck. Happy Thanksgiving.” Amanda stood for a second, remembering to breathe. In for four, hold for seven, out for eight. It was Thanksgiving in So Cal, but it didn’t feel like it. No crisp air, skeletal trees, or carpets of dry, brown leaves covering a quiet, snow-dappled forest floor. Only the sun. That ubiquitous sun, staining everything, even today’s uninspired turkey dinners cooked mostly in the microwave, with a yellowy, piss-color...

EAN: 9781501136511

Release Date: 15-08-2017

Languages: English

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Binding: Paperback