Collar Robber: A Crime Story Featuring Jay Davidovich and Cynthia Jakubek

By Hillary Belle Locke

How can you make money from a painting that you don't own, can't steal, and couldn't fence even if you succeeded? What if you convince people you already had stolen it? An assortment of shady and brutal players in Collar Robber think that—leaving a corpse or two along the way—they can use that bright idea to gouge fifty million dollars from Jay Davidovich's employer, Transoxana Insurance Company. Davidovich, first met in 2012's Jail Coach, is a Loss Prevention Specialist. Fifty million would be a good loss to prevent.

Cynthia Jakubek from But Remember Their Names has jumped from the gilded drudgery of lawyering with a big Wall Street firm to the terrifying adventure of starting her own solo practice in Pittsburgh. One of her clients wants to help Davidovich - for a hefty price - and stay alive in the process. Another wants to get married in the Catholic Church to a fiancée who was briefly wed years before to someone who now has an interest in the painting. An annulment is needed

As Davidovich and Jakubek face brawls on street corners and in court rooms, confrontations in brothels, confessionals, and Yankee Stadium luxury suites, and Tasers, machine guns, and religious vestments used as weapons, they have to remember that "take no prisoners" isn't always a metaphor...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Release date: May 5, 2015
• ISBN: 9781464203374

Reviews for Collar Robber

[eadieb-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Hillary Bell Locke has written two different series with two different main characters. In this book Cynthia Jakubek from "But Remember Their Names" and Jay Davidovich from "Jail Coach" team up. Jakubek is a lawyer and Davidovich is a Loss Prevention Specialist and works for Transoxana Insurance Company. A few shady characters think they can use a bright idea to gouge $50 million dollars from Jay Davidovich's employer, Transoxana Insurance Company. If the client, Pittsburgh Museum of Twentieth Century Art, wins their case from claimants demanding remittance based on the Nazis forcing their late relative to sell a masterpiece. If they lose, Jay knows his firm would have to cover the $50 million lawsuit. There was too much going on in this book as Cynthia is also dealing with a few lawsuits and all the characters are very hard to keep track of. There was some humor in the book which I found quite entertaining. It wasn't until almost the end of the book that I started to enjoy the book. My goal this year is to complete some of the series that I have started. That is the main reason that I wanted to read this book. If not for my goal, I might not have finished this book.