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The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
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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The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau This or That
Answer in under three seconds. No wrong answers — only revealing ones.
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Rapid fire (60 seconds)
Read these aloud as fast as the group can shout answers.
- 1. Paris 1942 or Boston 2018?
- 2. Butterfly bracelet or Plain gold band?
- 3. Museum gala or Kitchen-table confession?
- 4. Steal from the cruel or Never steal at all?
- 5. Secret philanthropy or Public charity name on the wall?
- 6. Found family or Only biological family?
- 7. Provenance research or Beautiful exhibit first?
- 8. Late-life romance or Late-life solitude?
- 9. Law or Justice?
- 10. Flashback chapter or Present-day chapter?