Jenny Siler Books In Order

Easy Money

She’s looking for the truth in a place where there are no easy answers only deadly secrets…
The daughter of a Florida drug runner, Alison Kerry lives from day to day, in seedy motels, surviving on cigarettes, Wild Turkey, and the adrenaline rush of danger. Allie is a runner and her latest job should go down easy: easy pickup, easy payoff Easy Money. But in a bar outside Seattle, everything goes horribly wrong. Allie finds her contact with a bullet in his brain and a government issued Colt in his jacket. Suddenly Allie has a killer on her trail, and the computer disk he killed for burning a hole in her pocket. For Allie, it’s a cross country journey through the Cascade Mountains to the winding back roads of Montana and into the darkest corners of a country’s secret history. Because somewhere between the killing fields of Vietnam and the wide open heartlands of America, a horrifying truth is buried. A truth about a people, a war, and one woman’s past. A truth Allie may not survive…

Iced

From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Easy Money, a riveting suspense novel about a headstrong repo woman in Montana. On Missoula’s coldest day of the year, the police pull Clay Bennett’s corpse from the weeds. For the cops, his death is an open and shut case, the result of a drunken brawl gone out of control. For repo woman Meg Gardner, who’d been looking to snag Bennett’s Jeep, his death is an opportunity: without him around to make life difficult, the job should be a breeze. But rumors about a mysterious missing military plane and about her own father’s other family leave Meg feeling decidedly uneasy about the cops’ casual assumptions. Only one year out of prison, romantically involved, and working the first legitimate job she’s ever had, Meg has a lot to lose. So when Bennett’s Jeep is stolen from outside her house, instinct and experience demand she walk away. Driven by haunting suspicions and ghosts from her past, however, Meg plunges full speed ahead and finds herself implicated in a dangerous web of infidelity, greed, and murder. With searing prose and nonstop action, Jenny Siler’s second novel confirms her status as a brilliant new suspense writer.

Shot

Trying to find out the truth about her husband’s death, headstrong Lucy Greene stumbles on dangerous secrets about a government sponsored biological warfare program that has maimed her past and threatens her futureThe story is that Lucy Greene’s husband, Carl, died in a car accident. But why did Carl contact Lucy’s high school sweetheart Kevin, a recently discredited TV journalist, just a few days before he died with promises of a big story? Why does an intruder break into Carl’s home office after the funeral? And what does any of this have to do with a rash of prison TB, their baby’s encephalocele, or Lucy’s brother’s post Gulf War illness?Lucy wants some answers, and before she knows it she’s careening across the western landscape with a hired killer on her trail, warned that she’s messing with some very big players. She’s not alone in helping her, Kevin wants to resuscitate his career and ex con Darcy wants to protect her junkie sister who’s still on the inside. But with her loved ones dead and a Glock for a new best friend, Lucy is the one who will do whatever it takes to uncover the real story behind her husband’s death.

Flashback

Discovered in a ditch by the side of a country road in France, Eve has only good American dentistry and a ferry ticket scribbled with Arabic letters to suggest her identity. That, and a bullet wound in her brain that she miraculously survives, even as it destroys her memory. Only a few scattered violent images remain or are they dreams? along with one undeniable physical fact: she has had a child. When the nuns who have sheltered her for a year are brutally massacred, Eve realizes that whoever she was in her past life, she had powerful enemies. Just half a step ahead of her pursuers, she lights out for Morocco in an attempt to retrace her steps and discover her past. Away from the convent, she begins to discover things that startle her among them, her capacity for violence and her facility with guns. Was she a spy? Who is the dying man in her nightmares? As she searches through spice scented souks and glamorous nightclubs for clues to her past, she has to figure out who is after her, and why before it’s too late. Within scenes of heart stopping terror, Jenny Siler’s lyrical writing and memorable images stand out. As Marilyn Stasio said of Easy Money in The New York Times Book Review, Siler’s is ‘a voice that gets your attention like a rifle shot.’

The Art of the Heist

From New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, to the Smithsonian Institution in D.C., to Boston’s Museum of Fine Art, to dozens of regional museums throughout the United States, no museum was off limits to leg endary art thief Myles Connor. He has used every technique in the book, from breaking and entering, to cat burglary, to false identities and elaborate con jobs. He once even grabbed a Rembrandt off a wall in broad daylight and simply ran like hell. His IQ is at genius level, and his charm is legendary. The fact that he was in jail at the time of the famous robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum which remains the largest art theft in American history has not stopped the FBI from considering him a top suspect in that still unsolved robbery.

How did the son of a decorated policeman grow up to become one of Boston’s most notorious criminals? How did he survive a decades long feud with the Boston police and the FBI? How did he manage to escape one jail sentence with a simple fake gun carved out of soap? How did he trade the return of a famous Rembrandt in exchange for early release from another sentence?

The Art of the Heist is a roller coaster ride of a life, by a man who was drawn to misadventure at every turn. As a promising young rock star, Myles Connor started collecting Japanese swords and weapons. Soon his collection expanded through less than legitimate means, and his education in European masters and modern artists accelerated. Disguised as an art collector, he spent time in the archives of museums far and wide, and visited after hours to take advantage of what he learned by day.

Along the way, he robbed banks, warehouses, trailers, and estate homes. He engaged in rooftop shootouts with the police. He walked the streets of Boston in disguise while dozens of policemen were out searching for him. The Art of the Heist is part confession, part thrill ride, and impossible to put down.