Short Heist

The Sound of Freedom meets Drive in this genre-busting rescue thriller From New York Times bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson. He’s saved dozens of lives. But to survive this mission, he’ll have to save his soul. After fifteen years on the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team, Barrett...

Warning: Once you start reading, you won’t be able to stop! Do you love uncovering the hidden stories behind history’s strangest events? Do you thrive on curiosity and crave stories that make you say, ‘Wait… that actually happened?!’ If you're fascinated by history, mysteries, and mind-blowing facts, then prepare to dive into a world of the weird, the wonderful, and the unbelievable with INTERESTING STORIES FOR CURIOUS MINDS. Why does this matter? Because stories like these ignite curiosity, challenge what we think we know, and prove that reality is often far more interesting than...

An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number generator. The new quantum computer system is foolproof. But someone on the inside is no fool. For once the odds may not favor the house - unless human ingenuity isn’t entirely a thing of the past.

Yet again, Lizzie has taken on the task of organising the annual summer getaway in France for her longtime friend group. After all, she’s got the time: The others are married, with families and high-powered jobs, while Lizzie is a perpetually single personal assistant. This year, though, she’s excited to show off her charming new boyfriend, Mal. While the holiday group chat buzzes with questions for Lizzie, Mal stays quiet, but once they gather at the château, he’s all charisma—even as dangerous mishaps begin to mount.

Gabriel Allon, art restorer and occasional spy, searches for a stolen masterpiece by Caravaggio in #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva’s action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue. Read by George Guidall Sometimes the best way to find a stolen masterpiece is to...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Janet Evanovich, #1 bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, bestselling author and television writer for Monk, comes the first adventure in an electrifying new series featuring an FBI agent who always gets her man, and a fearless con...

Essence® best-selling authors Kiki Swinson and De’nesha Diamond are two rising stars in the world of urban fiction. Heist presents two novellas starring young women hustling their way to the top of the game through daring robbery schemes. In Swinson’s The Ultimate Heist, pampered Shannon Marshall is accustomed to a big-money lifestyle. Her world is shattered, however, when her man is thrown into prison for gun running.

When an armored car heist turns into a bloody and grisly crime scene, Federal agent Blake Wilder is sent to Philadelphia to track down the culprits. But there’s more to this militantly precise and violent crew than meets the eye....

I'll do anything to escape the controlling monster who's tormented me for years, even if it means putting my life at the mercy of a criminal. When Kane Daniels breaks into my gilded cage, he doesn't realize his loot will include more than gold and diamonds—it'll include me.

Every four years, the criminal underworld engages in a game. The Game. The challenges range from the impossible to the deadly to the truly insane. Things that only a crazy person would tackle. I’ve won the game five times. This time will be no different. I’m at the top of my field now, the best of the world’s thieves. There’s nothing I can’t steal, and this time, the game is all about theft, subterfuge, and sleight of hand. Starting with a legendary painting of poppy flowers.

A burglar, a model, an Uber driver, and two down-on-luck entrepreneurs end up together in a suburban home, fighting for their lives and a golden Buddha statue. Ishaan is on his way to meet his lover for a dalliance at a seedy motel. He doesn't realize his Uber driver is his lover's ex-husband. Arthur is a small-time burglar tasked with repossessing a Buddha statue belonging to the Uber driver's ex-wife. He doesn't realize the owner of the home he's broken into will be back any moment with a hostage. Jonathan and Marlow are door-to-door salesmen who arrive at the wrong house at the wrong ...

A mysterious flamingo thief. Two unsuspecting residents. One matchmaker with a very strategic security assignment. When decorative flamingos start vanishing from front yards across Sunshine Village, Dolly McGraw has the perfect solution: assign two specific residents as her handpicked security team. They think they're investigating petty theft—she knows they're walking straight into her latest romantic trap. Forced together for late-night stakeouts and undercover surveillance missions, Dolly's newest targets discover that the most dangerous thing about detective work isn't catching ...

Two brothers speed toward their fate in a tightly wound short thriller about the gritty underside of the American dream. Billy Miller was supposed to be a champion. But his dream skidded away when he went over the handlebars of his motorcycle and barely learned to walk again. Now he’s stranded...

All Gus wanted to do was take a day trip up to the big city to get away from his constituents. However, some constituents are harder to avoid than others. He inadvertently bumps into Father Xavier while at an antique show. Neither this chance meeting or Gus’s appraisal are the worst thing to happen to the sheriff while out of town, because the other thing that’s hard for him to avoid is getting involved in a murder case. When one of the big winners at the antique show turns up dead it’s up to Gus to figure out who the murderer is. With the Father’s help, can Gus sort out the clues ...

They’d prepared for this moment all their lives without believing anything would ever come of it...they were wrong. Danae knew before she ever heard her brother’s voice that it was bad...and it didn’t take long to find out just how bad it was. She’d always understood the high cost of secrets...and quickly learned that sometimes the price of truths was far more costly. It took her even less time to realize that she’d never really known true fear. She did now and knew that the heart-pounding terror she’d experienced in those handful of moments when a gun was pointed at her brother...

Lieutenant Ethan Hendricks’ greatest nightmare just also happened to be his grandfather’s newest business venture. Logan Hendricks is thrilled about his brand new detective agency’s first case, but things weren’t turning out the way they were supposed to, including the attempted murder of one of his brand new employees. But he figures their next case, which involves finding a missing sister, should go a lot smoother. How dangerous could it be? Ethan Hendricks wasn’t quite as confident about his grandfather’s new hobby, or that the supposedly straight-forward case of a missing ...

The world’s most secure diamond vault. A team of master thieves. A robbery so clever the alarms never made a sound. In February 2003, a gang carried out one of the most ambitious crimes in history: the Antwerp Diamond Heist. They left no fingerprints. No DNA. No witnesses. So how did they get caught? The Almost Perfect Heist tells the true story behind the legendary break-in — rewritten in clear, simple English for A2–B1 English learners and adult reluctant readers. Discover how Leonardo Notarbartolo charmed a city, assembled a team of specialists, and defeated a vault considered “...

In 2021, the Panama Papers exposed a web of corruption, revealing how the global elite dodged taxes and hoarded wealth. Among the lush and secretive havens of the Cayman Islands, Eloise Deen emerges, on a relentless hunt for stolen fortunes. Known for her unyielding resolve and a knack for persuasion that borders on the lethal, Eloise is a force to be reckoned with. She's well aware that stealing the money is the easy part... getting away with it is a killer. Dive into this short tale where the stakes are as dangerous as the secrets uncovered, and where getting what you want might just cost...

One night, in a small North Carolina town, a down-on-his-luck guard at Loomis Fargo manages to steal $17 million - literally more than one ton of cash. Despite being caught on camera wheeling the money from the vault to the getaway van, David Ghantt makes off to Mexico before the FBI can blink. There's just one hitch: Ghantt has entrusted the money to an oddball crew of accomplices who had wooed him into committing this massive theft in the first place - and who, he soon learns, are trying to take him out.

Five nights. One vow. The cat-eared rogue who became the heartbeat of Level Up Harem. Before the desert raids and dungeon runs, there was Mira—small, fast, stubborn, and dangerously principled. This prequel collection follows the copper-haired catgirl across five formative heists and hard choices. In a flooded cellar she steals a life back from the river and learns people > profit. In a secret tournament she earns the Catspaw coin and unlocks Feint Echo. On a moon-slick bridge she exposes a noble sponsor’s writ-ledger with chalk, witnesses, and nerve. She races a Sand-Prince courier ...