The thieves know if they get caught the best they can expect is a one-way ticket to the notorious Castle Prison.īaz, though, has also seen a boy shot in the back in broad daylight, running from the police in a city railway station – and nobody batting an eyelid over it.īoss lady Fay has a frightening capacity for dropping her young charges like hot stones the moment she fears they have become a liability.Īnd above her there is crime boss Senor Moro whose ruthless henchmen neutralise those deemed to have stepped out of line. This is not a world where compassion gets much of a look in. There are many dangers to be faced along the way though. Just children, circumstance has made them streetwise far beyond their years, with Demi in particular a strutting pre-teen with the sort of smart mouth you would normally expect to belong to somebody considerably older.Īlmost everyone we meet in this underworld, in fact, is terribly aged and Baz – despite the name she’s a girl – is the only who truly seems to believe there’s a better life out there. Fabulous, interesting and genuine characters paired with a clever edge-of-your seat plot make this one a cracker! For readers aged 9+.IN an unnamed but teeming South American city Demi and Baz are the very best at what they do – snatching wallets and purses from the complacent rich, delivering the takings to den mother Fay and dreaming of a way out of their slum home at some unspecified future time. There are twists and turns but not a page is wasted. Katherine Rundell ably conveys the vibrant atmosphere of Prohibition-era New York – both the glamour and the grit. She does suffer physically as a result of the disease, but doesn’t let it stop her as she devises her plot and gathers together a group of friends (circus performers, pickpocket) with skills to complement her own significant knife-throwing talent – as taught to her by her beloved grandfather during her recovery from illness. Our clever heroine is brave, sharp-witted and a polio survivor. Vita arrives determined to reclaim her family home acquired by the dramatically fearful character Sorrotore, a ‘business’ man with shady and dangerous connections. The Good Thieves is a fast-paced heist adventure about Vita Marlowe, a girl who comes with her mother to New York to stay with her grieving grandfather.
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