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An hour past St. Patrick’s Day, 1990, two men dressed as Boston cops steal 13 objects worth $200m from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum near Fenway Park. Nearby, Uncle Louie, an ex-mobster turned stolen art retrieval expert, is reappropriating two paintings from a personal residence that were stolen from a museum. Both break-ins go undetected. At 8 AM, Uncle Louie receives a frantic call from his nephew Harry Bartlett, a Gardner Board member. He needs Uncle Louie’s expertise because a $20m ransom demand expires in 7 days. He hesitates to reenter the criminal world but he loves the ...

What do you do when your best friend is on the line- the end of your fishing line? Finding his murdered best friend’s body drags a soon-to-be-retiring financial executive into the ruthless world of con artists and scammers that prowl idyllic Nantucket Island for unsuspecting marks. Chief Financial Officer Harry Bartlett hasn’t made plans for his impending retirement, but he’s happy for now vacationing on Nantucket Island at the compound of his best and only friend, Ian Bradford, a wealthy wine merchant. But that abruptly changes when he fishes Ian’s body from a Nantucket Island pond...

HARRY BARTLETT’S PURSUIT OF GORGEOUS DOPPELFRAUDSTERS CREATED BY CRIME KINGPIN YESAC TREBOR LEADS TO A LIFE-OR-DEATH CONFRONTATION. Uncovering the Nantucket scams had been a great success: Yesac Trebor had been flushed out as the mastermind, stolen money had been recovered, and Harry Bartlett and Steve Malarkey had founded the Fraud Detective Group. But there was unfinished business and a shrinking window to complete it in: Yesac was still at large, and Harry only has five more days to find him before the deadline that he’d made with Steve to focus on growing the FDG kicks in. Starting ...