Plot Includes a Heist

Participating in Winter Books & Bites Bingo? These books include a heist.

Updated December 17, 2025
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Six of crows
Bardugo, Leigh
Paper Book
See the Grishaverse come to life on screen in the Netflix series, Shadow and Bone! Meet Kaz Brekker and his crew: Jesper, Inej, Wylan, and the star-crossed Nina and Matthias, on the heist of a lifetime in Six of Crows, from #1 New York Times-bestselling author...
The frame-up
Bond, Gwenda
Paper Book
A magically gifted con artist must gather her estranged mother's old crew for a once-in-a-lifetime heist, from the New York Times bestselling author of Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds. "Makes grand larceny more fun than ever."--Holly Black, New York Times...
Blacktop wasteland : a novel
Cosby, S. A.
Paper Book
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner * New York Times Notable Book * NPR's Best Books of the Year * BookPage's #1 Mystery and Suspense of the Year * Sun Sentinel's #1 Best Mystery of the Year "I loved Blacktop Wasteland...[A] fast-paced,...
Tom's crossing : a western
Danielewski, Mark Z.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the bestselling author of House of Leaves comes a magisterial novel about two friends determined to rescue a pair of horses set for slaughter. "This is an amazing work of fiction. I absolutely loved it. At the heart you'll find a blood...
Dr. No : a novel
Everett, Percival
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by...
The art thief : a true story of love, crime, and a dangerous obsession
Finkel, Michael
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century * "The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, élan, and a great sense of timing."--The New Yorker A...
Neuromancer
Gibson, William
Paper Book
SPECIAL 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION --THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE PAST TWO DECADES Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of...
The all-consuming world
Khaw, Cassandra
Paper Book
"A visionary, foul-mouthed, gory sci-fi adventure, dripping viscera, violence, and beauty in equal measure. . . . The All-Consuming World will consume your attention and linger in your thoughts, a very good ride and a remarkable what-if."--NPR "What a @#*% ride!--P....
The stardust grail
Kitasei, Yume
Paper Book
Save one world. Doom her own. Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations--until a disastrous job forced her into hiding. Now she just wants to enjoy a quiet life as a graduate student of...
Portrait of a thief : a novel
Li, Grace D.
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize Named a New York Times Best Crime Novel of 2022 Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by *Marie Claire* *...
The wren in the Holly Library
Linde, K. A.
Paper Book
The instant New York Times bestseller Can you love the dark when you know what it hides? Some things aren't supposed to exist outside of our imagination. Thirteen years ago, monsters emerged from the shadows and plunged Kierse's world...
Just watch me
Lindsay, Jeffry P.
Paper Book
A masterful thief plots an impossible crime--stealing the Iranian Crown Jewels.   From the author of the wildly successful Dexter series comes a new, mesmerizing bad guy we can root for: Riley Wolfe. He's a master thief, expert at disguise, and not averse to violence...
The lies of Locke Lamora
Lynch, Scott
Paper Book
In this stunning debut, author Scott Lynch delivers the wonderfully thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his band of confidence tricksters. Set in a fantastic city pulsing with the lives of decadent nobles and daring thieves, here is a story of adventure, loyalty, and survival that is one...
The sky on fire
Lyons, Jenn
Paper Book
Enter a world ruled by dragons... The Sky on Fire is a daring new fantasy heist adventure that will thrill fans of Temeraire, Fourth Wing, and Dragonriders of Pern Anahrod lives only for survival, forging her own way through the harsh...
A mask of flies
Lyons, Matthew (Short story writer)
Paper Book
In Matthew Lyons' pulse-pounding crime horror, A Mask of Flies, a criminal on the run after a failed heist must confront dark family secrets and demons from her past made flesh. One of Lit Hub's Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Books of 2024! |...
The curse of Pietro Houdini : a novel
Miller, Derek B.
Paper Book
A vivid, thrilling, and moving World War II art-heist-adventure tale where enemies become heroes, allies become villains, and a child learns what it means to become an adult--that "has the ring of truth and the echo of myth...[deserving of] all the lucky readers who discover it" (The...
The Picasso heist
Patterson, James
Paper Book
Instant New York Times bestseller! "Weeks before thieves broke into the Louvre, James Patterson started promoting an upcoming jewelry heist novel. The Picasso Heist is now ripped-from-the-headlines relevant." --USA Today...
Full speed to a crash landing
Revis, Beth
Paper Book
Amazon Editors' Pick - August 2024 Literary Hub - August's Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books A phenomenally fun novella that kicks off a trilogy of sexy space heists by New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis. Full Speed to a Crash Landing is packed with great...
Beartooth
Wink, Callan
Paper Book
The Economist 40 Best Books of 2025 * Apple's Best Books of the Year * Hudson Best of the Year * Kirkus Best Books of 2025 * Wall Street Journal Best Mysteries of 2025 "Skip Yellowstone for this rawer version of the West."--The...
Hammajang luck : a novel
Yamamoto, Makana
Paper Book
Ocean's 8 meets Blade Runner in this trail-blazing debut science fiction novel and swashbuckling love letter to Hawai'i about being forced to find a new home and striving to build a better one--unmissable for fans of Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir and Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. Edie...

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