A Beautiful Crime A Novel

Christopher Bollen

eBook - 2020

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist | O Magazine Best Book of the Year"A compelling take on the eternal question of how good people morph into criminals. Terrific."—People, Book of the WeekFrom the author of The Destroyers comes an "intricately plotted and elegantly structured" (Newsday) story of intrigue and deception, set in contemporary Venice and featuring a young American couple who have set their sights on a risky con.When Nick Brink and his boyfriend Clay Guillory meet up on the Grand Canal in Venice, they have a plan in mind—and it doesn't involve a vacation. Nick and Clay are running away from their turbulent lives in New York City, each desperate for a happier, freer future someplace else. Their meth...od of escape? Selling a collection of counterfeit antiques to a brash, unsuspecting American living out his retirement years in a grand palazzo. With Clay's smarts and... more