Heist Society by Ally Carter

Kat Bishops family has their own unique business trade which is theft. However this is not the life Kat wanted and she leaves never to come back and decides to go to school. However when the principles car ends up in a fountain Kat gets the blame and is expelled. She finds that it was a friend from the past who did it to get her out of school. Because a mobster has accused her father of stealing his art collection and is now in danger. Kat is the only one who can save her father, so she had to return when hale came to get her. Kat knew the only way to save her father was find who stole the art and steal it back. The only clue they have is a business card that the person left behind with their initials. Kat gets her team together of different thieves from different families so that they can get the work back. They work together figuring out the clues and working out ways to save her father.  After one of the most well protected art galleries was broken into but nothing take only a card left behind to show that they had been there Kat started to think that maybe the paintings that were stolen were returned to the gallery. So Kat and her team plan to complete the impossible and break into the gallery as well to collect the paintings to save her father, no one besides this mystery person have ever been able to do it. They are working with a deadline and time is running out. The team manages to pull off the heist and retrieve the paintings in time to save her father. However Kat knows that after this heist she could never go back to trying to live a normal life that she can never leave this business.  However she decides she will not be a thief that she will join this mysterious man in his mission and sets out to find lost items from now on, she will do right and not just thieve.

This book is witty and clever. It is refreshing as it does not have a love story. This book is about friendship and family, and finding the right path. Learning what is right and wrong. This book is about learning to work with people and trusting others. It is a hilarious book which has a great story and great suspense. It is a truly enjoyable book.