A major new debut thriller about a small-town girl who charms her way into the world of international art fraud
On the grubby outskirts of Paris, Grace restores bric-a-brac, mends teapots, re-sets gems. She calls herself Julie, says she’s from California, and slips back to a rented room at night. Regularly, furtively, she checks the hometown paper on the Internet. Home is Garland, Tennessee, and there, two young men have just been paroled. One, she married; the other, she’s in love with. Both were jailed for a crime that Grace herself planned in exacting detail. The heist went bad—but not before she was on a plane to Prague with a stolen canvas rolled in
her bag. And so, in Paris, begins a cat-and-mouse waiting game as Grace’s web of deception and lies unravels—and she becomes another young woman entirely.
Unbecoming is an intricately plotted and psychologically nuanced heist novel that turns on suspense and slippery identity. With echoes of Alfred Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith, Rebecca Scherm’s mesmerizing debut is sure to entrance fans of Gillian Flynn, Marisha Pessl, and Donna
Tartt.
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“Narrator Catherine Taber’s gentle, feminine delivery adds plausibility to this debut novel, which intriguingly focuses on a character’s deceptions as two different people…Taber adds dramatizations to each flashback and easily shifts between the character Grace and her alter ego, Julie. As her voice continually changes to complement the intensity of Grace and the sweetness of Julie, the listener has fun is trying to figure out what to make of this complicated femme fatale…[A] mesmerizing story.”
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