Footprints in the Cheese

Pat Black is a smart, seventeen-year-old boy who lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He decides to spice his life up by stealing small objects that are valuable to their owners. His interest is only in perfecting his criminal technique and he has no interest in financial gain so he returns the objects when he commits his next robbery. Each time he steals something, he leaves an animal as a calling card. As the object increase in value, the animals that he leaves get bigger. The first animal that he leaves is a Spider so the local press quickly dub him as Belfast’s Spider Man. His unlikely accomplice, Bella Fay, is a girl who cannot walk.
Bogart Black, Pat Black’s grandfather, who was the famous Cat Sweep, also used to break into other people’s houses to clean their chimneys so when he discovers Pat’s habit, he decides to put an end to it by helping Pat Black and Bella Fay to commit two of the most spectacular robberies that Belfast has ever seen, the second of which is the exact opposite of a robbery.
As other help with the robbery of the century comes from a mysterious source, Pat eventually learns about his family’s many intriguing secrets. He learns that nothing is what it seems and that nothing will ever be the same again.