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Author of The Fortune's Fool series

Author of A Study in Scarlet Marquis: Sherlock Holmes and the Trials of Oscar Wilde

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	Fortune's Fool (Fortune's Fool, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quick Bright Things Come to Confusion (Fortune's Fool #2) 4.33 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crawling Between Heaven and Earth (Fortune's Fool, #4) 4.50 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stars Hide Your Fires (Fortune's Fool, #3) 4.37 avg rating — 171 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Give and Hazard All (Fortune's Fool #5) 4.46 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Courage to the Sticking Place (Fortune's Fool, #6) 4.42 avg rating — 137 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teach Me How to Rage Correctly (Fortune's Fool, #7) 4.43 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love Not Wisely (Fortune's Fool, #9) 4.44 avg rating — 123 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Born Broke (Fortune's Fool, #10) 4.27 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Losing (Fortune's Fool, #8) 4.24 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Paula Danziger, God this woman can write. My only complaint is that the book is too short. Every scene of this book is etched in my brain from when I first read it as a child.
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