Early on in her career as a socialite, she found herself competing with prettier, sillier girls for attention. The owner of all these jewels? Carlotta Grimstone, one of the richest women on the planet. Rumored to have caused more deaths, bankruptcies, suicides, and indigestion than any moldering mummy could even hope to inspire. The sixty-carat Makepeace Diamond, said to be the most brilliant gem in the history of the world. The Crack in the Sky, the world’s most famous turquoise. Two of the thieves are barely speaking to the third.Ī priceless emerald brooch owned by Catherine the Great. Months of planning, practice runs, disagreements that ballooned into fights. In and out, a hot knife through sweet butter. There it is, a fat, satisfied moon, bright and silvery white, tracing a line on the dark lake that leads right to three thieves, who have paused to examine the loot. Like mushrooms and owls, they do their best work in the dark.
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