Burden of Proof (Trust Me novella)
Grifters can't have all the fun...
Sam Seward is a hacker, not a con artist. And after the events that landed him in a military school, he’s more than happy to leave the grifting to the expert he left back in Chicago. But when a classmate begs him to help her retrieve something one of the school teachers stole from her, Sam’s staunch belief in justice won’t let him turn her down. He forms a new crew and plots a heist of his own, but he’s not Julep, and something about this case just smells wrong.
Will he be able to pull off a con that even Julep would never attempt? Find out in this companion novella to Down to the Liar.
About the Trust Me Series
Books in series order
- 1.Trust Me, I'm Lying(2014)
- 2.Trust Me, I'm Trouble(2015)
- +Burden of Proof (Trust Me novella)(2024)
- +Down to the Liar (Trust Me novella)(2015)
- +Line of Fire (Trust Me novella)(2024)
- +Out of Sight (Trust Me novella)(2024)
Reading age: 13+ years
This series should be read in order.
Teen con-artist and master of disguise, Julep Dupree, tells lies. A lot of them. Her father is an old-school grifter with a weakness for the ponies who sends his daughter to a swanky private school so she can learn to mingle with the upper crust. But for extra spending money Julep doesn’t rely on her dad – she runs petty scams for her classmates while dodging the dean of students and maintaining an A+ (okay, A-) average.
Julep has it under control, until she returns home one afternoon to discover the place ransacked and her father missing. Have his criminal ways caught up with him? Julep will have to use every trick in her book to get to the bottom of this nasty business...
Fans of Ally Carter, especially her Heist Society readers, will love this teen mystery/thriller with sarcastic wit, a hint of romance, and Ocean’s Eleven-inspired action.