Crooked : Troubador Publishing : 9781838595036 : 1838595031 : 28 Aug 2020 : Ashia 'Ash' Cox isn't your average teenager. She's a sixteen-year-old con artist headed for greatness ? until celebrity criminal Harry Holmes destroys the family and life she loves. Taking matters into her own hands, Ash links up with Esther Crook ? a legendary con who has her own motivations against Holmes and his associates. After a little persuasion, Esther puts together a new crew using Ash as 'the insider'. The crew feel the heat of the criminals on one side and the encroaching crime agencies on the other, but as the heist unfurls, who is really doing the conning and who is pulling the strings? With plot twists aplenty, Crooked raises the stakes in crime fiction as the plot equally surprises ? and cons ? the reader.