To Catch a Thief by Sloane Steele – a Review

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Description:
It was the perfect plan…until he interfered.

There’s nothing Mia Benson wants more than to right her father’s wrongs.

She’s crafted the perfect plan—a Robin Hood scheme to get revenge while returning millions to innocent people. Five years of careful work and finally, it’s Go Time.

Only one thing stands in her way: a grumpy FBI agent doing a shoddy job of posing as an insurance investigator. Seducing Logan Ford, with his sexy grin, gorgeous body and irresistible charm, isn’t exactly a hardship.

In fact, keeping him distracted and away from her team becomes a personal pleasure.

But it’s impossible to hide behind a tangled web of lies and half-truths forever. Mia never counted on falling for Logan. And when he starts to put the pieces together, revealing her true feelings might be the most dangerous move of all.

Counterfeit Capers
Book 1: It Takes a Thief
Book 2: Between Two Thieves
Book 3: To Catch a Thief

Review:

To Catch a Thief by Sloane Steele is the 3^rd and final book in her Counterfeit Capers series.  I enjoyed the first two books in this (Robin Hood Heist style) series, and looked forward to reading To Catch a Thief, as it was the final book.  Happy to say I loved the satisfying conclusion.  Refresher: Jared and Mia (cousins), plan their series of heists as payback against their fathers.  A number of years ago, their fathers were exposed for a Bernie Madoff financial scam, causing many people to lose their money; a number of those people were put into financial binds. The fathers are in hiding, leaving the children and their wives to suffer the backlash against them; even though they had no idea what was happening. Years have passed, and now both Jared and Mia have inherited from their mother’s trust funds, which they plan to use to help out all those people who were hurt financially.  The series revolves around those people who Jared and Mia hired to help them. Audrey (Data) is a hacker, Nikki is the thief and London is the forger.

In To Catch a Thief, Mia (the mastermind) is the lead in this story.  Mia has always been known as the Ice Queen (cold, bossy, determined to payback her father), but over time (previous books), she softened up, especially working with the three ladies that she and Jared had chosen to help replace paintings with forgeries (selling the good paintings and secretly giving those harmed by her father and their cronies money to help them recover).  I loved how Nikki and Audrey would walk Mia through her on site events, especially teasing her.  It was fun, and I liked the banter between them.

Logan Ford, is an FBI agent, who is undercover as an insurance agent to try and find out why all these forgeries are showing up.  He has Mia Benson on his list, as people who are art connoisseurs, and tries to use her to help him find out about what is happening in the art world.  Slowly, Logan finds himself attracted to Mia, and is determined to win her over.  What he doesn’t know is that Mia and her team, suspect he might be a cop, since his knowledge of art was poor.

Mia allows herself to open up to Logan, and eventually become romantically involved. However, part of her tries to keep him from knowing the truth about her involvement and her team’s safety.  Mia discovers her father has so many more hidden paintings that she can never keep up, and decides to work with the FBI (and Logan) in trapping her father, which puts her in the forefront of being behind the heist, even if she used the money to give to those who lost everything.  Logan was unhappy to learn that Mia was behind the heists, even if it was for a good cause, but he worked with her and the FBI for the sting against her father. He also wanted the names of those who worked for her, which she constantly said she worked alone.  Will Logan be able to accept that Mia technically was a criminal?

What follows is another wonderful exciting story, in the world of hackers, thieves and forgers, as well as playing robin hood (payback to the victims). There was plenty of action, intrigue, suspense and a couple we rooted for.  Mia in this book, turned into a great lead, who I really got to like. I did like Logan, though I was not sure if he would be able to stay with Mia.  I do not want to say too much more, since you should be reading this without spoilers.  To Catch a Thief was very well written by Sloane Steele, and I totally loved the storyline revolving around the heists; lots of fun.  To Catch a Thief was a fun, as well as suspenseful story, with a fantastic group of characters.

Reviewed by Barb

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