Charles Belfoure
Charles Belfoure is the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Architect and the forthcoming novel, House of Thieves (September 2015). An architect by profession, he graduated from the Pratt Institute and Columbia University, and he taught at Pratt as well as Goucher College in...
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Charles Belfoure is the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Architect and the forthcoming novel, House of Thieves (September 2015). An architect by profession, he graduated from the Pratt Institute and Columbia University, and he taught at Pratt as well as Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. His area of specialty is historic preservation, and he has published several architectural histories, one of which won a Graham Foundation national grant for architectural research. He has been a freelance writer for The Baltimore Sun and The New York Times. He lives in Maryland. For more information, visit www.charlesbelfoure.com.
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Gambling debts, robbery rings, and high society and thugs blending together for a marvelous read. HOUSE OF THIEVES takes us back to the late 1800's when women needed escorts and when men were their protectors. The men definitely protected their wives and families and kept secrets from...
5 Stars! Can you give 6? #HouseofThieves @CharlesBelfoureI absolutely loved this book! First of all, you've got a society family with a son with a gambling problem who's gonna die until he tells Kent that his dad is an architect. Then Kent decides the dad can pay the son's debts by getting him int...
After five short chapters, I made notes of what I thought would happen in this book and, no surprise, I was correct. In the author's Q&A at the end of the book, Belfoure describes his novel-writing process as being similar to an architectural project. He first devised the plot, and then he populated...
From the first word heard on this audio, I was a prisoner. I think the story held me more rapt than the reader; it moved along quickly, and totally consumed me. I never turned it off, until the end. It is about unlikely heroes, who rose above their own expectations, and it is about traitors, by desi...
From the first word heard on this audio, I was a prisoner. I think the story held me more rapt than the reader; it moved along quickly, and totally consumed me. I never turned it off, until the end. It is about unlikely heroes, who rose above their own expectations, and it is about traitors, by desi...