Full name: Unbecoming: A Novel

Author: Rebecca Scherm Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Crime Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780143128311 0143128310

On the grubby outskirts of Paris, Grace restores bric-a-brac, mends teapots, re-sets gems. She calls herself Julie, says she's from California, and slips back to a rented room at night. Regularly, furtively, she checks the hometown paper on the Internet. Home is Garland, Tennessee, and there, two young men have just been paroled. One, she married; the other, she's in love with. Both were jailed for a crime that Grace herself planned in exacting detail. The heist went bad--but not before she was on a plane to Prague with a stolen canvas rolled in her bag. And so, in Paris, begins a cat-and-mouse waiting game as Grace's web of deception and lies unravels--and she becomes another young woman entirely. Unbecoming is an intricately plotted and psychologically nuanced heist novel that turns on suspense and slippery identity. With echoes of Alfred Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith, Rebecca Scherm's mesmerizing debut is sure to entrance fans of Gillian Flynn, Marisha Pessl, and Donna Tartt. Similar books: Vanished by Fletcher Knebel The Absence of Nectar by Kathy Hepinstall The Longings of Wayward Girls by Karen Brown Damage Control by Robert Dugoni Morning, Noon & Night by Sidney Sheldon Grand Jury by Philip Friedman You Deserve Nothing by Alexander Maksik Wit's End by Karen Joy Fowler The Malpas Legacy by Sam Llewellyn Dark Tribute by Iris Johansen Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon Lord of the Dance by Andrew M. Greeley Are You Afraid of the Dark? by Sidney Sheldon Social Crimes by Jane Stanton Hitchcock The Muse Asylum by David Czuchlewski Silent Child by Sarah A. Denzil The Missing Ones by Patricia Gibney Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter The Blackhouse by Peter May The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter