To the crack snatcher team at London's Military & Civilian Combined Forces HQ, President Keating's new-fangled, Use-a-Thief-to-Snatch-a-Thief scheme, is a political mistake, doomed to fail. Likewise, seventeen year old new recruit, Skye Forrester, a repeat offender fresh out of juvie, as just another street thief. To Lieutenant Hunter, her designated puppy-walker, she's a pain in the backside. He's enough on his plate: winter 2089 is gearing up to be a shocker. Already overcrowded, the city is at flash-point with the migration of northerners, escaping the mini ice-age gripping the country north of Leicestershire, pouring in. And people are dying. Twenty nine unexplained deaths around the poorer areas of Hammersmith and White City: no visual cause; toxicology reports negative; forensics zilch. But Skye is determined to prove her worth. Tough, smart and sassy, she's a survivor where quick wits and nimble fingers have kept her and young brother, Alexie, alive for the last six years. Working alone, she uncovers two cold cases where the previous investigator met a gruesome death. That's when the threatening text messages start, her brother's abducted in the park, and when Skye's babysitter and two small boys are found dead, face down in their porridge, Skye begins to wonder who, if anyone, she can trust. it will take all her dubious skills to uncover the perpetrator - knowing that he or she will kill anyone who gets in their way.

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### Review

Reviewed by Kathryn Bennett for Readers' Favorite:  Hazel Cotton has crafted a really fun and adventurous story that has a lot of twists and turns.  I love Skye and I love the story that turns around her.  You can go down one alley and not know for sure what side of it you are going to come out on.  I would recommend this to any reader of any age.  For me it really was that good.

Reviewed by Rebecca McLeod for Readers' Favorite:  What a great book!  I was really excited to see such an advanced topic like overpopulation handled in a book for teens.  Hazel Cotton depicted London 2089 very realistically.

Reviewed by Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite:  Hazel has created a chilling and all too possible future England in To Snatch a Thief.  Skye is a fabulous character, strong, determined and full of the confidence of youth.  Her mentor, Hunter, is a good foil to her impetuous nature and makes the interplay between them entertaining and real.    I was drawn into the story from the first page and enjoyed every minute I spent reading this book.   I hope Cotton has a sequel waiting in the wings.  I wholeheartedly recommend to Snatch a Thief.

### From the Author

I loved writing Skye's story and became totally emersed in her London 2089.  I never knew where she would take me until the words were on the page. A lot of times she surprised me.

When I wrote my first novel, Second Chance, although by no means a biography, I drew on personal experience for parts of the plot.  With To Snatch a Thief I  let my imagination fly.  A sequel is buzzing in my head, but  I've another manuscript to finish first, then maybe Skye and Hunter will fight crime together again.