The Hidden Keys by Andre Alexis

Monopoly Book Challenge - Chance - A book with a Goodreads rating higher than 3.0
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With a Goodreads rating of 3.77, this was a apt fit for the Monopoly challenge and a fun read!

The book's characters go on a treasure hunt and while the reader doesn't have enough access to solve the clues themselves, they do get to following along! Tancred, our protagonist is a complex thief that you can't help but love.

Alexis makes some interesting points about what is good/bad, right/wrong. The difference between thinking you are doing good and actually doing good and the reasons we act as we do.

Summary from Goodreads: Parkdale’s Green Dolphin is a bar of ill repute, and it is there that Tancred Palmieri, a thief with elegant and erudite tastes, meets Willow Azarian, an aging heroin addict. She reveals to Tancred that her very wealthy father has recently passed away, leaving each of his five children a mysterious object that provides one clue to the whereabouts of a large inheritance. Willow enlists Tancred to steal these objects from her siblings and help her solve the puzzle.

A Japanese screen, a painting that plays music, a bottle of aquavit, a framed poem and a model of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater: Tancred is lured in to this beguiling quest.

As he tracks down the treasure, he must enlist the help of Alexander von Würfel, conceptual artist and taxidermist to the wealthy, and fend off Willow’s heroin dealers, a young albino named Colby and his sidekick, Sigismund ‘Freud’ Luxemburg, a clubfooted psychopath, both of whom are eager to get their hands on this supposed pot of gold. And he must mislead Detective Daniel Mandelshtam, his most adored friend.