Fantasy
Crime
Thriller
2001
The lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Published in Spanish as Las Mentiras de Locke Lamora
In this stunning debut, author Scott Lynch delivers the wonderfully thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his band of confidence tricksters.
What it is
A plan for the big heist · comedy with teeth
What happens in it
The heist
Found family
How it feels
Reading sheet
How it's told
- Structure
- Jumps in time
- Who tells it
- A narrator who knows it all
- Its world
- An invented world
Before you pick it up
Is it for you?
It's for you if…
- you love a plan that could go wrong at any moment
- you love a family people choose
- you like dry, sideways humour
Maybe not if…
- you prefer a story told in order
- you like to keep your feet on the ground
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