The Burglar by Thomas Perry

 

This novel's title is a bit of a red herring: While there are parts of this novel that are about as mundane as the title might lead one to expect, it's a subtle, twisted, complicated sort of mundanity. There's some dry wit turning some phrases, here, and a pacing that kinda ticks, then tick ticks, then tickticktickticks. The main is deeply criminal but still has something like morals, and the sequences where she goes through things making her career path possible are ... a neat way to make her character clear, her tendency to plan carefully and move quickly. I gather much of Perry's work is novels in a series, I might give something a try in spite of that; this was a good read.