A major new debut thriller about a daring art heist, a cat-and-mouse waiting gam
e, and a small-town girl's mesmerizing transformation
On the grubby outskirts
of Paris, Grace restores bric-a-brac, mends teapots, re-sets gems. She calls her
self Julie, says she's from California, and slips back to a rented room at night
. Regularly, furtively, she checks the hometown paper on the Internet. Home is G
arland, Tennessee, and there, two young men have just been paroled. One, she mar
ried; the other, she's in love with. Both were jailed for a crime that Grace her
self planned in exacting detail. The heist went bad--but not before she was on a
plane to Prague with a stolen canvas rolled in her bag. And so, in Paris, begin
s a cat-and-mouse waiting game as Grace's web of deception and lies unravels--an
d she becomes another young woman entirely.
"Unbecoming "is an intricately plo
tted and psychologically nuanced heist novel that turns on suspense and slippery
identity. With echoes of Alfred Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith, Rebecca Scher
m's mesmerizing debut is sure to entrance fans of Gillian Flynn, Marisha Pessl,
and Donna Tartt.
