Unbecoming

<b><b>EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL <p/>Startlingly inventive. --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> </b> <p/>A highly praised debut novel of psychological suspense about a daring art heist a cat-and-mouse waiting game and a small-town girl's mesmerizing transformation<b> by the author of <i>A House Between Earth and the Moon</i></b><br></b><br> On the grubby outskirts of Paris Grace restores bric-a-brac mends teapots and resets gems. She calls herself Julie says she's from California and slips back to a rented room at night. In truth home is Garland Tennessee where two young men have just been paroled. Both were jailed for a crime that Grace planned. The heist went bad--but not before she was on a plane to Prague contraband in her bag. As Grace's web of deception unravels she begins a cat-and-mouse game that echoes the best of Alfred Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith and is sure to appeal to fans of <i>The Girl on the Train.</i>