The Grifter's Daughter

Grifter's Daughter #1

by Duane Lindsay

IMAGINE YOU STOLE A MILLION DOLLARS –
FROM YOUR FIANCÉ. ON THE EVE OF YOUR WEDDING .
Dani Silver doesn’t have to imagine. She just did it. And she’s got big plans for her share of that million in cash she and her father scammed from her billionaire fiancé (although strictly speaking, that might make him her ex-fiancé.)

Now she’s going to run her own operation—a long con, a dying art currently practiced by only a few old-timers. Fortunately, she learned from the best con man still living , as he’s happy to remind Dani…often—Leroy “Pops” Amadeus Logan, who happens to be her pops. Dani—or Mona Pasternelli, or Carly McNair, or any number of aliases she can pull out of her pocket—has gotten by for the past couple of decades on small cons. She’s got a con for every occasion . Need to get rid of your abusive husband? No murder necessary…it’s so much more satisfying to just mess with him and screw up his life. Thanks to her ex-fiancé, she can afford to put up the front money for the sting she’s got in mind, and she’s looking for a mark. But not just any mark. Her idea of going sort of straight requires that the mark be crooked and really deserving of being fleeced. The perfect candidate appears in the person of a televangelist who talked the widowed mother of a friend into signing over her house to his church. When the plan runs riotously amok, Dani goes back to Pops for help in figuring out where she went wrong. She backtracks, adjusts course, and— with her delightfully cockamamie crew in tow—the game is on again ! Author Lindsay has created a refreshingly human and appealing heroine who’ll keep readers coming back for more. Laugh-out-loud funny, inventive, and appropriately low-life , this delectable first taste of t he Dani Silver series will delight fans of heist and caper movies (think THE STING, and all the OCEAN’S films, especially the all-female OCEAN’S EIGHT), TV series about loveable con artists and female criminals, like LEVERAGE, IMPOSTERS, and of course GOOD GIRLS —and books! There just aren’t enough of them. But if you can’t get enough of Donald Westlake’s riotous Dortmunder gang and Lawrence Block’s Bernie Rhodenbarr, Dani’s your new BFF.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Humor, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Contemporary

257 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 29, 2017

Reviews

[K · Rating 3 out of 5]

Every so often, I find it interesting to try an author about whom I harbor doubts-- it's usually a freebie book with a theme that catches my attention and evokes an "ah, what the heck?" response in me. Such was the case with The Grifter's Daughter.

Within the first few chapters, I can usually tell that a book is just not going to attain the same literary level as the books I usually read. There's just something about the writing that says, "this one's a minor league player, not quite ready for the bigs." Perhaps one day, but not yet. Please understand, a minor league player is still very good-- just not in the same category as many of the more well known and commercially successful (in most cases) authors.

This book, featuring Dani Silver, the grifter's daughter, has its moments. The various "grifts" are fun to watch as they play out, but one gets the feeling the author was trying a little too hard to demonstrate just how clever he was, over-complicating the story as a result. It's a subtle flaw, and many readers seem to rate this one more favorably than I, but there it is. Just this reviewer's opinion-- nothing more or less. I enjoyed parts of this book, took it at face value, and spent a few hours to see how things would turn out. Three stars, but nothing that will draw me back for more in all likelihood. Now, back to the big leagues!

[Tony Duxbury · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this crime novel. Dani Silver is a grifter and the daughter of one. Leroy, her father, is a living legend among the con men of America. They have just pulled off a very good score, but Dani wants more. She wants to get out from under Leroy's shadow. Dani has some Daddy issues and needs to prove she is as good as him. She wants to set up a long con, a dying art that is rarely practiced. Dani sets up a mark, but the con falls apart. Only later does Dani realize that she had the wrong target and she gets another bite of the cherry. Like Ocean's Eleven, but without all the high tech. I loved the character of Dani and the rest of her crew of professional rogues. Plenty of twists and humour. I would recommend this to anyone looking for an enjoyable read.

[Victoria · Rating 5 out of 5]

A total delight

I loved every page of this. It will keep you guessing until the last minute. And laughing, too. A real delight.

[Silver Screen Videos · Rating 3 out of 5]

NOTE: The author graciously gave me a copy of this book and asked me to write a review.

Con games and con artists have long been popular with mystery writers and readers alike, and for good reason. People love a crime story in which success depends, not on being tougher or better armed than the other guy, but on outwitting him. In some regards, Duane Lindsay's The Grifter's Daughter is a classic example of the long con story, tracing its lineage back to The Sting. But once he gets outside of the description of the book's big con itself, Lindsay stumbles a number of times, and the overall experience isn't nearly as much fun as it should be.

The title character in The Grifter's Daughter is Dani Silver, daughter of one of the greatest scam artists ever. Although she learned the trade at her father’s elbow, she’s now anxious to strike out on her own as a sort of Robin Hood of flim flammery. She’ll still take the money, but only from people who don’t have a rightful claim to it in the first place. Her first score, as detailed in the book, involves a ring of crooked land speculators who have made a fortune in New Orleans in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. She assembles a crew of specialists who worked with her and her father in the past, including a hacker, a forger, a forensic accountant, and a surveillance expert, and then sets about trying to figure out which of the crooks is the easiest to exploit and how to go after his weakness.

Or, at least that’s the scam that she winds up trying in the second half of The Grifter's Daughter. The first half is taken up with her first attempt at the big con, one that goes wrong because she violates a number of her father’s precepts, leaving her in a very bad position financially and with her fellow grifters. Now, I don’t have a problem with the protagonist in a novel screwing up initially and trying to do better the second time around. The problem is that author Lindsay devotes far too much time to the first go-around that winds up going nowhere (including multiple failed seductions of a would-be mark) so that, by the time the real action rolls around, he winds up skimping on the details he reveals to readers and rushing through the description of a scheme that should have been allowed to play out at greater length to build suspense and reader enjoyment.

The other main problem I had with The Grifter's Daughter was the humor, or more precisely, the lack thereof. The book is billed as a comic thriller, but most of the attempts at humor revolve around people acting like silly idiots. The jokes by and large aren’t funny, and, worse, undercut the book’s central storyline. Unlike many comic caper novels, such as Donald Westlake’s Dortmunder books, author Lindsay asks readers to take the central con somewhat seriously. However, he then weakens the credibility of his own plot by having his characters act like children. His hacker insists on going to big companies that have nothing to do with the con and hacking into their systems, simply because he enjoys being a part of the employee culture at these companies. Another member of the gang sends strippers to the hacker’s office as a joke… not funny and not in the slightest bit credible.

The author’s silliness and his characters’ antics detract considerably from a well-thought out and well-researched big con. The author is quite familiar with the language that con artists use and gives several examples of how con artists prepare for their scores. He also includes a couple of examples of small cons that Dani and others pull off along the way. Further, Dani herself is an interesting character, and her efforts to get out from under the shadow of her father are worth reading as well.

When The Grifter's Daughter works, it has all the charm that the best con artistry books have and that same ability to engross readers in the machinations of its plot. Unfortunately, the author gets distracted quite a few times along the way and never really hits his stride until the second half of the book. Like its protagonist Dani Silver, The Grifter's Daughter is a work in progress, but one that has considerable potential as a series.

[Ann_Nyaruai · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was okay

[Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was going to be two stars (just okay) for a slow, dull read until I got to the imbecilic last page, and discovered that the remaining 20+ pages were a "teaser" for the next book in the series. Sub-titled "a comedy thriller", I found it neither funny nor thrilling. Someone had seen The Sting several times, read Maurer's book The Big Con, and decided to do a half-arsed reboot. It took me far too long to finish this shortish "cosy" novel because I started to dread reading it, but was too bullheaded to bail. I kept putting it down and reading other things so it took me a good couple of weeks. And then the author sold out with that idiotic ending. Talk about con the reader!

See, this is problem with direct-download novels. Reboot, rehash, tweak and call it original. Then they don't proofread, or their proofreaders don't know their stuff. Lindsay misuses simple words. What colour is "midnight green" exactly? One character is supposedly into crocheting stuff, we get a whole paragraph about how she crochets constantly, and yet she counts knits and purls and "clicks her needles." I've knitted and crocheted in my time, you don't knit or purl in crochet and you can't "click needles" when you're using one hook. The second half of the book is full of misused punctuation and so many misspellings it was distracting.

And then the stupid non-ending.

I will not be troubling myself with any more of Duane Lindsay's unconvincing, unamusing, unthrilling output.

[Mervi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dani Silver is one of the children of Leroy Logan who is one of the greatest con artists ever. But Leroy is getting older and Dani thinks she can do a long con, a complicated con scheme, all on her own. We get a teaser of Dani gathering her crew to swindle a lot of money.

When the story starts, she has just run out of her fiance Nick (who apparently wasn’t a nice guy at all) and swindled him for little over a million dollars. With it, she buys a house from a small town. But she really wants to do her own cons with her own crew. Dani meets her next door neigbor, a young woman whose husband is hitting her, and Dani decides to help her,
- by swindling the abusive husband.

Then Dani returns to New Orlans, to start her life as the head of her own group of con men and women.

The story had a bit of a slow start but when things get going, it’s like a roller coaster ride. Dani is not a perfect person, in fact she makes rather big mistakes at the start. She also constantly doubts herself and her skills of actually doing the con she set out to do. She knows her crew already but they’ve always worked for her dad and don’t respect her. Dani also has a lot to prove to her dad.

The humor in the book was very much in the silly side, sometimes even distracting from the main plot. For example, Sammy is a hacker but he prefers to do his work in a firm, which he doesn’t work for, hacking himself in at first and then doing the actual work in their office. Funny, but could also be very bad for the job.

Dani is the main first person narrator but we get a few short scenes from other characters’ point-of-views. Unfortunately, the book has some editing errors and some of the humor didn’t really work for me. Still, I enjoyed it.

This was a light-hearted fun read, similar to many con artist movies.

[William Cook · Rating 5 out of 5]

“We’ll use a book as a flash roll and hook him at the bump.” Oh, yeah? Well, if the mark won’t fall for the raggle, the grifter will have to call in another roper. So there!

Yikes! It’s hard not to start talking like a con artist after this caper! (Author Lindsay, do you have a checkered past?)

This book is fun from page one. It’s fast, funny, and fascinating. Need something to get you through a dog day afternoon at the beach or the pool? You can’t go wrong with The Grifter’s Daughter. It brims with zany characters careening around twists and turns that will make you laugh out loud. Think of movies like The Sting or Ocean’s Eleven. Best of all, it’s the first in a series. Five enthusiastic stars!

[Andrea Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Entertaining

Good characters and interesting plot. I look forward to reading more of Mr. Lindsey 's work. I am curious to see what comes next.

[Ronald Keeler · Rating 4 out of 5]

By its title, The Grifter’s Daughter by Duane Lindsay implies that I will discover some cool relationship between the daughter, Dani, and the father, Pops Logan. Further, both Dani and Logan will be grifters. (The following is not a spoiler). The reader will learn very little about the father in this novel. Lindsay only describes Logan’s character in passing. This novel is part of a series so perhaps we will learn more about Logan in later parts of the series. The novel has a subtitle: “The Dani Silver Comic Thriller #1.” I found the humor quirky and lighthearted. This is a pleasant read about elaborate schemes perpetrated in the name of social justice. The only people to lose money are those that cheated other people for financial gain. Dani and her crew have a lot of fun while following deceptive, if not illegal, actions. I received this book through a combination of Instafreebie and the author’s website. There was no obligation in any way to submit a review.

Logan is an expert grifter, another name for this is a con artist. At some point, after Dani was grown up, he faked his own death which may be a reason we do not see much of him in this novel. Throughout her childhood years, Logan taught Dani the central rules of constructing cons, both long and short. He stressed the principles of adequate research for identification of the principal target. He taught Dani how to “read” people. Logan stressed the need to involve the team in the proposed scheme and not to just give orders to team members about their part in the plan. Over time, Dani became acquainted with many people in the shadow world that would be able to help her when she was on her own.

Sammy is the computer hacker, no con in the age of the internet would be complete without one. Cincinnati Bob is a documents guy; he can produce counterfeits of anything to include money. Ray, who has a long Hispanic name, is a fan of books and bookstores. One of the schemes integral to this novel will involve books, bookstores, and famous authors. Readers will find a lot to like with this scheme. Patty Kreel is a woman with many disguises and a conviction that her sexuality can seduce any man to be a willing participant in Dani’s schemes. Ace, a person who likes to refer to himself in the third person “The Ace,” is purposefully unhygienic which encourages others not to notice him. He is good for surveillance of a possible target. If a target spots Ace, the reaction would be to avoid him based on smell alone. Merle and Oz are huge, male physical presences. Any con must be ready to defend itself with heavy hitters.

Dani has quite a crew of experienced con artists. Recalling a phrase about honor among thieves, readers should not find it surprising that each person is primarily out for themselves. Dani will have to organize a plan that allows for each of them to achieve maximum profit while the team moves forward to a common accepted organizational goal. There are professional jealousies that frequently occur as some members try to exact retribution for past failed plans. Dani’s job is to keep them going in one direction; a difficulty compounded by the fact that all crew members had worked for and respected Pops Logan. This is Dani’s first independent job conceived and carried out by her. She frequently vents frustration as the crew members constantly compare her to her father.

For readers unfamiliar with the world of grifting, there is fun learning new vocabulary. The Store, The Treasure Hunt Scam, The Roper, The Face, The Fixer, A Raggle, A Flash Roll, and The Inside Man are some new terms most will not incorporate into their everyday vocabulary. This is not a manual on how to perform deception operations but it is informative about terminology still in use.
This is a light-hearted look at one group of people that exploits greed, one of the deadly sins. It fits well into a plot that involves a television evangelist in a scheme with a surprising twist. The Grifter’s Daughter is a pleasant weekend read. I give it the equivalent of four Amazon stars but I will not post this review on Amazon because it is not a verified purchase. Coming from Instafreebie, the price was (obvious).

[Edith · Rating 5 out of 5]

“The Grifter’s Daughter” is the 1st book in a new series by Duane Lindsay. Because I was given a free copy of the 2nd book, “The Ghost Coach”, I had already read that. I found reading this 1st book filled in gaps for me, including backgrounds on Dani Silver’s team, how she came to be running her own long cons and insight into her relationship with her father, Leroy Logan. (Read the author’s book “The Rag, the Wire and the Big Store” for Leroy’s Story. It is fantastically entertaining, too!) As with “The Rag, the Wire and the Big Store” and “The Ghost Coach”, I found the author’s descriptions of people, places and actions very detailed, interesting and helpful. The plot of this book, like the other two I’ve read, is unpredictable with lots of twists and turns. I found this book hard to put down. I look forward to reading more of both Dani’s and Leroy’s adventures! I highly recommend this book and series!

[Jay Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story is similar to the "Oceans #" films in that it provides a number of interesting and unique characters brought together by Dani Silver to run a long con. In addition to many unusual players, the story includes a number of side issues that keep the whole book engrossing and interesting. I definitely felt the need to complete this book before doing anything else The plot has Dani making a bungle of her first attempt to run a long con on her own, with help from a neighbor picked up along the way. How she gets out of the hole and brings things back together is clever and thought-provoking. The great thing about the cons is that they only work on people who are crooked and greedy. Figuring out how to use the person's greed is key to a very successful con.

[Margo James · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was excited to find this boxed set with four stories in it. I love anything about con artists and their crew. I really wanted to like this book, I really did. It was so hard to get through. The author thought the reader should intuitively know what each member of the crew did in relationship to the con. The set up was two sentences, even the crew didn’t understand what the reason was. With the grumbling going on it was apparent they had all worked for the legendary grifter, Leroy Logan. Not only was the con a disaster but the retelling was as well. Don’t know if I’ll continue with the series. I want to give it another try to prove itself, but it’s so time consuming for so little reward. Any thoughts from others? Hopefully I’ve missed something.

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the way this author writes his conman stories; the flashbacks to Dani's youth and the beginnings of her history as a grifter's daughter.
Dani's decision to run from her impending nuptials has her in a flap and questioning her motives. A good con will fix all that. Dani lets her associates know she is open for business and the result is a funny and suspenseful story.

[Anne Kinslow · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anne Kinslow.
This book was very interesting with humour & plenty of action and planning of a con artist and her team to relieve others of their ill gotten gains.
I enjoyed reading this story but would have liked the ending to include Jiggs & Marcy and did Jiggs get payment for his mother's house? After all, he was the reason for this particular con job . Good weekend read.

[Pat Haley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Funny but slow read

Likable characters, slow getting started. Very visual descriptions but with so many characters became confusing. Could picture book as a series.

[Philip Van · Rating 4 out of 5]

Con artist takes a fall and winds up at the top of her game - 4 stars

With Hurricane Katrina as a background, the bulk of the story takes place in New Orleans. Imagine a cast of odd characters who don't like each other but enjoy the game of fleecing a mark. Consider the visuals and the piles of money that seem to be in play and you get a couple of stories of greed overpowering credibility.

Dani Silver has been trained by the best con artist in the United States, her dad, Leroy Logan. Dani is anxious to be on her own and Leroy, aka "Pops", isn't getting any younger. Several police departments are looking for Leroy. This tale is the start of Dani's first significant con on her own. You will learn several named cons. It runs in Dani's family.

When a "long con" - meaning a complex fool-em-till-you-fleece-em - gets started, it is a bit loose in checking out the background of the mark. A lesson will be taught. You will learn. Stage one ends in disappointment which enables a different look at the (same) facts.

In the second stage, a different con is planned for a different mark, more than one mark, as it turns out. But you need to invest a little time to understand the action. Some of the action will be clear at the very end - surprises are what make this a good story.

Honesty, well, most people fudge a little, which is why many cons succeed. People buy into a concept and want something that isn't quite what it seems to be. There you have it - a textbook explanation of a con. But you should take this opportunity to see behind the curtain. Read this book. You won't be disappointed.

[Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dani Silver is on the run from her ex-fiancé whose money she stole. No sooner does she settle in her new house in Jamestown, Missouri than she becomes embroiled in her new neighbors’ drama. Before long she finds herself in New Orleans with her neighbor Marcy Garfield.

When an ex-boyfriend Jiggs Roche reaches out to Dani Silver for her help in getting back his mother’s house 🏡 Dani calls on old friends of her father, Leroy Logan—a former con man.

According to Jiggs, two months ago his mother Correta LaRoche donated her house to a church called Hailey Briscoe Ministry which is overseen by a local preacher named Hailey Briscoe. She calls an old friend named Sally Rakowski, a forensic accountant to help run a background check on Hailey’s financials.

Sally relays her findings to Dani and adds that Hailey may not be as innocuous as he seems. His financial records suggest he’s making money from a side hustle.

So Dani decides to take her investigation further and enlists the expertise of her father’s former crew: Cincinnati Bob Wilkinson, the paper man who handles documents, magazine articles, licenses, etc; Esteban Ramirez (Ray) the fixer—he procures hotels, cars, tickets. He likes books as much as he loves women; Sammy Hansel a computer hacker; The Ace who does stakeouts, and Patty Kreel. A fast-paced fun read.

[Annemarie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I quite enjoyed Lindsay's Seriously?. And with it being the second book in a series, but it also completely spoiling the first book, I figured a good medium would be starting with the first book in another of Lindsay's series. My mistake.

I didn't enjoy this book. The characters felt like caricatures without any dept, and the story was slow, and worst of all, incredibly predictable. The characters were all incredibly childish, which didn't help.
None of the characters were interesting, and we never learned more about them than a shallow, one-dimensional view.

Dani was pretty frustrating in how stupid her decisions were, while the book still pretended like she was smart. Also her feeling that con artists aren't criminals just feels like a way for her to justify to herself that she's not a criminal.

The description of this book was what hooked me, where Dani would con her fiance out of a lot of money. That did happen, but not in the book. It had already happened, giving us just a badly thought out "long con," that didn't take very long at all.

[Ken Finlay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Somewhere inside "The Grifter's Daughter" a better book is lurking. It's a first in series so I'm cutting it some slack.
Dani Silver is her father's daughter - he's a legendary conman and she's aiming to continue and expand the legend. But when she puts a long con into operation, hiring a crew and paying up front, it all goes horribly wrong and she escapes by the skin of her teeth.
She manages to pull the strands together and the revamped sting is back on.
The problem is that almost half of the book is discarded almost entirely to set off on a different tack. It takes a while to wade through a story that simply fails to ignite to get to the good stuff. The final third of the book is by far the best.
And, for a book that's billed as being comic, it mostly isn't.
That said, it was an easy read and just good enough to encourage me to continue with the series.
2.5 Stars rounded up to 3 Stars.

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Long con

When its time to fly the nest make sure you have a con ready to run.

The grifter's daughter takes you on a very interesting and fun ride through the various cons and how to set then up, along the way we meet the fixer, the hacker, the paper guy , and the beauty , the eyes might be a greedy lazy chump but he sure can take a beating at the head of this we meet Dani backer, wrangler and the brain behind this operation.


Fresh off a Successful con job run by her father Dani has decided to go straight for awhile but when an old friend suggest a job , Dani smells a big payday and calls in the gang, but both everything is as it seems soon Dani is breaking up fights while running from the police and it looks like the mark might be in the right place but the wrong target.

Very entertaining read, well written , realistic situations and believable plots make for a fabulous book picking up the next book to see where Dani pulls her next con job.

[Becky Wezensky · Rating 1 out of 5]

I wanted to like this book. The premise sounded so fun. There were about thirty decent pages. Everything else was dang near unreadable, but I try really hard not to quit a book halfway through.

It was like someone sat down to watch an Oceans movie with a legal pad and tried to write down every piece of dialogue and body language so they clearly missed key parts. The editing was miserable and quotations started dialogue but just didn’t close out? We never find out what happened with Marcy and Jiggs and Brock? Or anything more about Jiggs, or how the televangelist felt about how everything went down? What about her dad? So many parts of the story never got wrapped up and I find myself wildly uninterested in if any of these questions are answered in book 2. I guess there’s a very good reason why this was free. I got volumes 1-6 from Amazon but I don’t know how soon I’ll delve into books 2 and beyond.

[Amanda Sexton · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book in just a few hours. The author knows what he’s talking about, as he filled the pages of the book with many references to a variety of scams, included fine details in each step, then brought the big con to a big finish. There were a few pages at the beginning that I struggled to get through, but once I settled into the story, it was easy to go with the flow. The first couple of pages even felt like they had been written by someone else.
I liked that the characters weren’t perfect, that each of them has a flaw that could have undermine the job, but in the end, they each play their part to get the bad guys. I look forward to reading more in the series.

[David Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Grifter's Daughter chronicles Dani silver’s first long-con without Leroy’s involvement. As is usual in Duane Lindsay’s books involving Dani and Leroy the action doesn’t stop and the descriptions of the con that is being pulled is detailed and very entertaining. While I read the second and third Dani Silver books before this one, I had to read The Grifter's Daughter just to complete the Dani Silver series so far. I would recommend this book and all of the Dani Silver books to anyone who enjoys a very entertaining book.

[Raymond White · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dani Silver was raised to be a con artist or Grifter and she's learned her lessons well, or thinks she has. In a previous book--the excellent "Tap Doubt"--she and her father scammed some truly horrible people and prevented an environmental catastrophe. Now Dani wants to make the world a better place by conning bad guys out of their ill gotten gains.

Full of great characters (just wait till you meet her team) amusing dialogue and fun plot twists "The Grifter's Daughter" is one of those rare books I'll read more than once, just for the sheer joy of it.

[Skater · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sorry did not finish. Got about a third of the way through and caught myself skim-reading. I had to ask myself; if I'm not enjoying the book, why am I reading this? There is no spark. Everything is terribly telegraphed. I have a hard time with reading 'stupid antics', they are not funny. I don't mind swear words. I don't mind blasphemy. Actually, I rather enjoy them both, but this was just boring and the writing style didn't draw me in. This may work for you but not for me. Please note: I decided to finish the book and I’m glad I did. The final portion of the story read much faster and I was glad I finished it. But I don't think I'll continue with this series.

[Billy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very interesting book, however, it is not a good choice if you wish to relax and read.

This book requires the reader to stay alert and focused, there is a lot of quick dialogue to be appreciated.
My work life I spent as a policeman in Miami, Fl followed by another 19 years as North Carolina District Magistrate and dealt with various criminals but not in any vice operations.
This book shows it is almost a different world.
I recommend to everyone.

[Donald · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun and surprisingly well written

Surprisingly, because I’ve become so used to poorly written, horribly edited books. The Grifter’s Daughter was neither.

This is really a great read with super character development and a term from Sci-fi applies as well. Lindsay accomplished a wondrous world building, to put us into the community of grifters that most of us don’t even know exists.

[Clay · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a good story, though I remember thinking that the first part of the book should have been something that I would think goes better into a second book. However, the reason for why there wasn't any thing going on in the first 2/3 had a good explanation and a a good resolution. Unfortunately, I felt this had the ending speeded up.

I do look forward to a second helping to see, now that characters have been established, how a longer long con might play out.

[Siesta · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun read, no surprises
The daughter of the “greatest grifter ever” strikes out on her own. The twist is that she doesn’t just want to enrich herself but also “give back”. Although frankly, this is pretty minimal, at least in this first in a series.
The characters are engaging if stereotypical, and there is some nice humour. The eventual con, though, is nothing new. But if you enjoy hustle stories this could be for you.