The Charlie Glass Series
Book One
War-torn Iraq. Stolen treasure. A team no one can trust.
The Case
An ancient artefact disappears from a Baghdad museum during the chaos of occupation. Sixteen years later, a single piece resurfaces in a London auction house, sold under a name that does not exist by a hand that left no fingerprints.
Charlie Glass is sent in to ask the questions no one wants answered — and finds out, very quickly, that the people who stole it are still in the business of keeping it. The trail runs from a Mayfair drawing room to a Baghdad checkpoint, and at each end of it there is a man with a gun and a reason.
Baghdad Heist is the first case in the Charlie Glass series. It is a novel about war, about stolen heritage, and about what one woman is willing to do when everyone around her has already decided the answer is nothing.
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Glass is a heroine for our anxious decade — fearless, decent, and only just on the right side of being broken. A breakneck debut.
— The Times
Themes & Texture
Baghdad in the years after the war — heat, dust, checkpoints, and the smell of diesel under everything.
Stolen heritage as a commodity. A single artefact priced at the cost of a human life.
Charlie at her sharpest — newly promoted, badly outnumbered, and not yet certain she should trust the man on her own side.