House of Thieves: A Novel | 
HISTORICAL FICTION - MYSTERY - CRIME
Gambling debts, robbery rings, and high society and thugs blending together for a marvelous read.
If you enjoy being treated to history, an alluring storyline, and an "oh my goodness" ending, HOUSE OF THIEVES will take you there.
One chapter after another keeps you mesmerized as unbelievable, possible events happen.
FULL REVIEW: https://tinyurl.com/ycxy7v8t
PUB: SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
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BOTM for May! 😁 Can't wait to delve into this one! 🥰
FEATURING: HOUSE OF THIEVES by Charles Belfoure
Gambling debts, robbery rings, high society, and thugs blending together for a marvelous read.
If you enjoy being treated to history, an alluring storyline, and an "oh my goodness" ending, HOUSE OF THIEVES will take you there.
FULL REVIEW: https://tinyurl.com/y42djzoo
LOVE his books.
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pickA stellar read! I was hooked and didn‘t want to put it down 🙌🏻 I‘ll definitely be reading more from Charles Belfoure 👍🏻
If you can show me a better way to spend an extra day this month, I‘d like to see it 🤓📚🗓
#tuesdaytidbits. @SilversReviews 1. On TBR, 2. On TBR 3. Yes, House of Thieves (loved it) 4 Jane Smiley
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LOVE Mr. Belfoure‘s books.
Gambling debts, robbery rings, and high society and thugs blending together for a marvelous read.
Mr. Belfoure has authored another intriguing, well-written, captivating book. Mr. Belfoure pulls you in with his marvelous research and storyline.
https://silversolara.blogspot.com/2015/09/house-of-thieves-by-charles-belfoure.h...
I wish more than 450 were allowed.
pickThe description “Age of Innocence meets Gangs of NY” is accurate! Great, flawed characters and a wonderful romp from the Mansions of the Gilded Age elite to the opium dens and gambling halls of New York‘s dingy, rough, streets. Multiple storylines all pull together in movie-like ending. I can see this as a film!
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THE JOKER AND THE THIEF
“Gambling debts, robbery rings, and high society and thugs blending together for a marvelous read.
HOUSE OF THIEVES takes us back to the late 1800's when women needed escorts and when men were their protectors. The men definitely kept secrets from them as they carried out their days.”
https://silversolara.blogspot.com/2015/09/house-of-thieves-by-charles-belfoure.h...
pickBreaking Bad meets White Collar set in 1880‘s high society. An architect related to the Astor‘s has to plan heists of his friends and clients for a high powered gang in order to pay back his Harvard graduate son‘s gambling debt before his whole family gets killed in retaliation. Just a really fun read that feels like you are thrown into the early gilded age. Bonus points for being set in a plethora of real life gilded age mansions that still exist
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TODAY'S PROMPT: ANGRY
I don't have too many books with angry characters in them, but THE HOUSE OF THIEVES had some characters that could get angry and be frightening.
https://silversolara.blogspot.com/2015/09/house-of-thieves-by-charles-belfoure.h...
so-soA member of 1880s High Society gets entangled with the criminal underworld. This could have been an interesting plot, except when all members of the elite family get entangled separately, it loses something. The climax would have been great in a 1970s action movie, but was not great literature.
There sometimes comes a point in a book when you think back over what happened, check how many pages are left, and have the sinking feeling of, "Oh. This might be one of those books where not everyone makes it out okay." For this one, it was page 300, Chapter 50.
Probably just "so-so" objectively, but reading it concurrently with "Maestra" is turning Belfoure into the freakin' love-child of Charles Dickens and Edith Wharton.
Started this one last night. As best I can tell from the beginning of this and "The Alienist" by Caleb Carr, the entirety of New York City in the late 1800s spent 90% of their free time at Delmonico's.
