City of Saints and Thieves (Hardcover)

from bucketofrhymes

Thanks to the publisher for a free copy of City of Saints and Thieves! Reading this book made me realize something. Most young adult thriller books that I've read take place in the US or UK. And most young adult books that I've read that take place in sub Saharan Africa tend to be focused on edu...

from lillibrary

Several years of living rough as a member of a Kenyan street gang has turned Tina into an accomplished thief. On the night she's about to pull off her most important heist, the one that will expose her mother's murderer, Tina does the unthinkable. She gets caught. Now, with time running out, she ...

from Jessika.C

Rule 1: if you want to be a thief, you don't exist Rule 2: Trust no one Rule 3: Thieves don't have friends. ... Tiny Girl is a thief that has perfected her skill for years. It's all built up towards her last heist that should finally give her closure for grief and anger she's held in since the ni...

from fhudnell

This is a young adult thriller that deals with more important themes than I usually associate with the genre. Sixteen year-old Tina became a street kid in Kenya after the murder of her mother who was working as a maid in the Greyhill household comprised of a rich, white American ex-pat, his Kenya...

from alanteder

I'll admit that I was taken in by the promo touting this as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Gone Girl. I assumed that using adult suspense fiction references had meant to indicate that this edged towards adult fiction as well, but it is mostly a superficial teenage adventure albeit in a har...