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The Dali Deception
- A Kilchester Caper, Book 1
- Narrated by: R J Alldred
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
Dark, funny, effortlessly cool, and utterly thrilling. Join Violet Winters as she pulls the heist of her life. Will she succeed, or will she end up dead?
For one-woman crime wave Violet Winters, stealing is as natural as breathing. When she’s offered the heist of a lifetime, she barely hesitates before agreeing.
Unfortunately, taking this job means returning to the city she once called home. And Kilchester is a city so rotten, it hasn’t just spoiled the whole barrel, it’s turned the contents to cider and sold it to schoolchildren. Which can mean only one thing - a smorgasbord of trouble.
Violet’s plan to steal a priceless masterpiece is, in her own words, "a masterpiece", but can her crack team of misfits and ne’er-do-wells use their diversely nefarious skills to bag the booty before the wheels come off?
Will they fall victim to Kilchester’s finest vertically challenged psychopath, Violet’s vengeful yet strangely magnetic ex-lover, or just the general human cack-handedness that accompanies all truly brilliant plans?
Eat. Sleep. Steal. Repeat.
Slick, funny, and surreal, this fast-paced thriller will grab you by the scruff of the neck and hurl you into a criminal world like no other.
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- 07-07-18
Who knew art theft could be so much fun?
In theory this should be one of the easier reviews to write. I could just proclaim “I LOVED THIS BOOK” and whack a 5 star comment onto Twitter. Job done.
Not quite…that would be criminally understating how much I enjoyed Adam Maxwell’s fantastically fun crime caper The Dali Deception. I hope “crime caper” is an acceptable description but I cannot find a more apt snappy description. It was shades of Oceans 11 (though Violet’s crew are fewer than eleven), it had the gangster pizzazz of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and the humour of Hot Fuzz. I can only apologise that all my movie references are so out of date…I don’t see many films these days!
Violet is a crook (one of the nice ones). She was forced to leave Kilchester after a planned robbery went wrong – well when her boyfriend sabotaged her plan. Now she is back and it does not take long before a new opportunity presents its-self – steal an original Dali and replace it with a replica so the crime goes undetected. Tricky, but Violet has a plan oh and if she should happen to cross paths with her treacherous ex then there may be the chance to put a few things straight there too.
This was an audiobook listen and I grudged the time that my commute ended and I had to pause the story. Violet’s plan to steal an original (and most unusual) Dali from a heavily guarded underground location was brilliantly kept under wraps by the author who teased out clues as to how the heist would play out as the story unfolded.
She recruits a wheel-man, a computer expert, a con man and her muscle – all are wonderfully depicted in the story and they all clash, then bond and fall foul of calamity. You cannot help but love them.
Every good story also needs a villain and Kilchester’s criminal underworld is certainly ruled by a big personality (even if that personality is not contained within a big body).
Always important for an audiobook – the narrator. Big shout to RJ Alldred at this point, she was perfect and I hope to hear her narrate more stories soon – by far the clearest (and most pleasant) voice I have enjoyed listening to on my daily commute.
Did I mention that I loved this story? It’s true – an easy 5 star read (or listen in this case).
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