We Love Lisa Kleypas discussion

I hope I've put this one in the right place! Many apologies that I haven't been around for a while and as I'm off to ireland tomorrow for ten days cycling I'll be absent for a little longer.

Anyhow I have read two romance books with thieves in them recently and was wondering if you know of any more?

one is

the other

I'm interested too! I've read a few contemporary romances with heroes who are thieves, but not a HR. I'll have to look into those.

If Tomorrow Comes - this is not a romance book. But it was very exciting and I think there was a love story, but that wasn't the main part of the book. Heroine is not a petty thief, but a very sophisticated one. It's Sidney Sheldon and may shock your socks off

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The only HR that comes to mind is .

Off the top of my head:

(<--already mentioned, but it's good)

The ultimate thief:

Does it have to be historical?





I think they are a band of thieves

Oh thank you everyone, I'll look up your suggestions- I'm back (with buns of steel) from my cycling round Ireland and ready to read for the autumn.

Good for you, Mshj! How was the weather?

Mshj wrote: "Oh thank you everyone, I'll look up your suggestions- I'm back (with buns of steel) from my cycling round Ireland and ready to read for the autumn."

I love Ireland...where did go while there?

I'm visiting Ireland right now:) Dublin is very nice but I only get one day to visit the countryside and thought of going to Kilkenny, since I need something that's not too far and has a rail station. Any other ideas?

The weather was a bit mixed (but it's Ireland so we were expecting that and had all of our wet weather gear). Sorry Fani- I was on the wrong side (on the West) but would recommendgoing over to the West coast if you have the opportunity. We were in Calre, Galway (Connemara) and Mayo and it was all lovely.

The west coast was definitely my favorite part, too!

I went to Wexford- east coast- after all:( I read in internet that the train ride was very scenic and it turned out they were right. I wish I had time to go to the west side though; I've heard it's the best part of Ireland.

Just finished , which was pretty good. The heroine is a trained thief.

Lisa Kay wrote: "Just finished , which was pretty good. The heroine is a trained thief."

Thanks Lisa Kay, I will check it out.

So, Mshj, which book did you read for your thief challenge? I just re-listened to , and Bea (technically) qualifies as a thief.

Good point, it wasn't a challenge, I just enjoy the edginess of the thief thing. I am probably just a girl in pants fan.

Ah! Got it.

Reading one right now where the hero & heroine are not thieves per se, but run shennanigans to take money from people. I'm almost done and it's very very good, it's called .

One of my favorite books ever: To Love a Thief by Julie Anne Long. Heroine is caught pick pocketing by sexy barrister and agrees to pose as his friend's cousin to make the woman he wants to marry jealous but of course it doesn't end there... I think it is her second book, written before the Pennyroyal Green-series.

Oh, thanks, Susanne! is also a Pygmalion theme book, which I LOVE. And, it is only 99¢ on Amazon right now. ☺

Btw Lady Gallant that you mentioned was a shed load of fun. Very well done and different in style to a cookie cutter historical romance. gazooks codpieces!!

Lisa Kay wrote: "Oh, thanks, Susanne! is also a Pygmalion theme book, which I LOVE. And, it is only 99¢ on Amazon right now. ☺"

Pygmalion theme is one of my favs as well! Do you have any recs on top of your head?

Susanne, I don't have many tagged, but here are some from my Pygmalion theme bookshelf:


Read & Really Liked


Yet To Read

Tnx Lisa! They are going straight to my forever growing TBR-shelf :-)

**snortsnort** LMAO, Susanne!

Oh, added one I thought of!

Uh oh... a bit of a warning on The Charm School . . . (view spoiler)[ The hero does visit a prostitute after meeting the heroine... some people don't like that. But, he doesn't cheat on her. Well, at least I don't think so, because they don't have that type of relationship. (hide spoiler)]

Lol! A quick Q: Can I read Minx as a standalone novel or should I pick up the other in the Splendid series first?

Oh, dear! I've forgotten, Susanne, LOL! Maybe someone else would be better at answering that. I know I read them in order; however, my gut/first response was to say it didn't matter. (Geez... I hope I don't get run out of GoodReads on a rail for that! LOL!)

That's my gut response too. I'll double check but I can promise you that there will be no running involved whatsoever ;-) I'll probably try to read them in order anyway, I don't want to repeat the Wallflower debacle when I messed up the order and read DiW first but IMHO that seems to have been an extreme case - most historicals are far less related than LK series.

True. A lot of times the author will just have past characters in a walk-on roll, but Ms. Kleypas usually does NOT do that. Neither does Mary Balogh.

Susanne--I read Minx before the others in this series. Not a big deal. There are characters that have a walk on role from the earlier Splendid books, but the book can be enjoyed on it's own.
However, if you decide to read JQ's Bridgertons series ~I'd read those in order as they are "related".
I read LK's Hathaway series out of order-last book first!

Tnx Susan! I think you guys have convinced me - I'll pick Minx up before getting into the rest of the series. I actually put it in my April BYOC so now I have to read it soon :-)

Some great new additions here! I have one to add too:



Joanna Bourne,
My Lord and spymaster, highly recommended.

Another great thief book:

I just wanted to say that I have been regularly revisiting this thread to pick up new books with one of my fave themes! Thank you all.

New one to add. Very enjoyable although having had a pirate and a thief phase I am currently enjoying some westerns!

I just finished Captured by Victoria Lynne and this might fit into this category. The heroine is a con artist (thief, pick pocket, cheat etc.). There is also an interesting secondary character, the person who trained her. Overall, a lovely book. :)

Thank you. Got to say a fabian cover makes me hesitate!!

Lol, it's been re-released this year and the new cover is much improved. Check this link out: Captured. The author is generally quite good and the hero of this one was worth a fabian cover IMO. :p

I need to add a new one by Anne Mallory.

my favourite romance book of all time is by my favourite romance author of all time Anne Mallory. Her latest two are and . Coincidentally they're both about thieves and are absolutely capturing.

Thanks, Alicia. Good to know.