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The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

Kristin Harmel

At eighty-nine, Boston jewel thief Colette Marceau has spent a lifetime following her mother Annabel’s code: take only from the cruel and unkind, give to those who need it. Across decades she has quietly redirected fortunes — including toward the Boston Center for Holocaust Education — while the world believes she is merely a glamorous eccentric. When twin butterfly bracelets from 1927 Paris surface in a museum loan, Colette and her protégé Aviva are pulled into a dual-timeline mystery that reaches back to Resistance work, a child lost in the Seine, and a sister who may not be dead after all.

“We do not steal for ourselves. We take from those who have taken too much — and we give where the law will not.”

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