SFF

Lady Eve’s Last Con

Solaris. Jun. 2024. 368p. ISBN 9781837861590. pap. $16.99. SF
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DEBUT In this interstellar SF story, con artist Ruth Johnson has invaded the swanky satellite New Monte to fleece one particular mark, Esteban Mendez-Yuki (the corporate scion who seduced her little sister and left her pregnant and crying), by trapping him into a marriage contract he’ll have to pay big money to get out of. But Ruth didn’t count on the high-level crooks who have their own beef with the Mendez-Yuki megacorp, and she absolutely didn’t plan on falling in love with her mark’s dangerous, gorgeous stepsister. It will be the con of a lifetime if Ruth can pull this game off—or it will be game over for them all. A high-flying sapphic romance riding on a high-speed hoverbike of a confidence caper among the spoiled rich, wrapped around a conflicted heroine who discovers that she has a heart after all and can’t keep up the game, in spite of the stakes.
VERDICT Readers who have fallen hard for the recent run of SF caper mysteries, such as The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal, Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis, and You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo, will find similar thrills in this debut.
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