TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harmel,Kristin
TI  - The stolen life of Colette Marceau
SN  - 9781982191733
AV  - PS3608.A745 S76 2025
U1  - 813/.6 23/eng/20250602
PY  - 2025///
CY  - New York
PB  - Gallery Books
KW  - Women jewel thieves
KW  - Fiction
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Underground movements
KW  - France
KW  - Paris
KW  - Bracelets
KW  - Lost articles
KW  - Diamonds
KW  - Sisters
KW  - Murder
KW  - Boston (Mass.)
KW  - Paris (France)
KW  - History
KW  - 1940-1944
KW  - German occupation, 1940-1945
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N1  - "A novel"--Jacket
N2  - "Colette Marceau has been stealing jewels for nearly as long as she can remember, following the centuries-old code of honor instilled in her by her mother Annabel: take only from the cruel and unkind, and give to those in need. Never was their family tradition more important than seven decades earlier, during the Second World War, when Annabel and Colette worked side by side in Paris to fund the French Resistance. But one night in 1942, it all went wrong. Annabel was arrested by the Germans, and Colette's four-year-old sister Liliane disappeared in the chaos of the raid, along with an exquisite diamond bracelet sewn into the hem of her nightgown for safekeeping. Soon after, Annabel was executed, and Liliane's body was found floating in the Seine--but the bracelet was nowhere to be found. Seventy years later, Colette--who has 'redistributed' $30 million in jewels over the decades to fund many worthy organizations--has done her best to put her tragic past behind her, but her life begins to unravel when the long-missing bracelet suddenly turns up in a museum exhibit in Boston"--
ER  -