The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

Kristin Harmel,the New York Times bestselling author who ΓÇ£is the best there is at sweeping historical dramaΓÇ¥ (Kelly Harmsauthor of The Seven Day Switch)returns with an electrifying new novel about two jewel thievesa priceless bracelet that disappears in 1940s Parisand a quest for answers in a decades-old murder. Colette Marceau has been stealing jewels for nearly as long as she can rememberfollowing the centuries-old code of honor instilled in her by her motherAnnabel: take only from the cruel and unkindand give to those in need. Never was their family tradition more important than seven decades earlierduring the Second World Warwhen Annabel and Colette worked side by side in Paris to fund the French Resistance. But one night in 1942it all went wrong. Annabel was arrested by the Germansand ColetteΓÇÖs four-year-old sisterLilianedisappeared in the chaos of the raidalong with an exquisite diamond bracelet sewn into the hem of her nightgown for safekeeping. Soon afterAnnabel was executedand LilianeΓÇÖs body was found floating in the SeineΓÇöbut the bracelet was nowhere to be found. Seventy years laterColetteΓÇöwho has ΓÇ£redistributedΓÇ¥ $30 million in jewels over the decades to fund many worthy organizationsΓÇöhas done her best to put her tragic past behind herbut her life begins to unravel when the long-missing bracelet suddenly turns up in a museum exhibit in Boston. If Colette can discover where it has been all this timeΓÇöand who owns it nowΓÇöshe may finally learn the truth about what happened to her sister. But she isnΓÇÖt the only one for whom the bracelet holds answersand when someone from her childhood lays claim to the diamondssheΓÇÖs forced to confront the ghosts of her past as never before. Against all oddsthere may still be a chance to bring a murderer to justiceΓÇöbut firstColette will have to summon the courage to open her own battered heart.