Financial Mystery

Jimmy Johnson’s body appeared in his neighbor’s backyard long after he was dead. Can the detectives bring a joyful holiday to a mourning community? Peyton Anderson was a feisty young detective in the Police Department of Moscow, Idaho. When a half decomposed body was discovered by a long absent city home owner in his backyard as he returned home, Peyton became one of the investigators. Peyton felt helpless as it took a long time to establish the identity of the victim. Peyton spent restless nights thinking that the murderer could escape before the identity of the victim was confirmed. ...

After barely avoiding becoming a casualty of his boss’s financial fraud at National Airlines and the break-up of his second marriage, Lonny Jones passes on a promotion to Vice President and relocates to Austin, where he’d attended college twenty years ago, to recharge and figure out his future. By chance, he rents a house owned by a politically active couple and is unwittingly drawn into a down-and-dirty mayoral primary election campaign where the powerful, charming and corrupt mayor uses his office to dispense favors to developers. The challenger is an upstart political novice with an ...

A rollicking good mystery and witty tale of an international finance, Wall Street, money markets, espionage, kidnapping, bankers on the run, archeology, and far more.

Publish AND Perish? A revered environmental author is worth more dead than alive! WHEN HE AGREED TO GIVE AWAY THE BRIDE ON BALD HEAD ISLAND, A PRIVATE EYE DIDN'T COUNT ON BECOMING SHARK BAIT! A "destination" wedding on a charming island off the coast of North Carolina turns deadly! Taking a break from the festivities, Alton Rhode and his lady love, the beautiful Alice Watts, meet the island’s most-famous resident: the reclusive author, Ashleigh Harper, whose classic environmental novel inspired a generation of America’s youth. But all is not what it seems, and Rhode is soon involved in ...

A man is found in his car, having met a painful death. Another man is found in the woods, clearly murdered. DI Aidan Burke seeks to establish the connection between these deaths. The first man is a wealthy property developer. Little is known about the second victim. Burke's sergeant, DS Fiona Moore, sets to work gathering evidence. But the investigation turns up some unusual findings that point to serious organized criminal activity.

Dumped by his girlfriend when she upgraded to a lawyer and stuck in a dead-end job where his boss demeans him for having no college education, Colin Charbonneau begins to believe that he's just not good enough to be permanently loved by the ladies or valued by his boss. Circumstances collide which provide Colin with a new girlfriend and an unexpected promotion to office manager. Colin begins to let some optimism creep into his thoughts. Sorry Colin, but life doesn't work that way. Be prepared for some big troubles. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lance Majestik is a pen name of prolific Canadian lawyer ...

Angel or assassin? Tall, blond, and effortlessly elegant, Helen has the world at her fingertips. Literally. One wrong move, one mistyped key, and millions of lives could be at stake. Collin Frey tracks her every step, uncertain whether she’s destined to save the world…or shatter it. He reaches out to her, but Helen trusts no one. Deep undercover, she discovered a conspiracy so lethal it threatens to destroy the world as we know it. Danger lurks behind every corner, and anyone could be compromised. Time is running out. Neither Helen nor Collin can avert the disaster alone—but a secret ...

She’s tired of working twice as hard and making half as much as her male colleagues. But when her clever ploy implodes, can she escape going down for the count? New York City, 1983. Rebecca Voss knows the world isn’t fair. Breaking barriers as a female vice president at a prominent financial institution, the thirty-one-year-old securities manager thinks maybe she’s finally on the road to something big. But the go-getter’s sense of success crumbles upon discovering her impressive promotion doesn’t include equal pay. Determined to level the playing field, the clever businesswoman ...

This fourth Wall-Street mystery starring John Putnam Thatcher by Emma Lathen focuses on the car industry, the anti-trust department, and IPOs.

To Live or Die in Santorini It was supposed to be a fun Grecian holiday. Beaches. Babes. And booze. To offset the cost of the trip, Joe has an assignment from a local hotelier to fix a profitability issue. But after a short two weeks, Joe has problems with three women. The first woman loves him. The second woman hates him. And the third woman is dead. Of course, the murder is not really his business. The police are on the case, and Joe has his own project to work on. But every time Joe pulls a string from that tangled mess, he finds an even bigger issue, and eventually, the strings lead him...

Almost a dozen missing girls. Bags full of unidentified body parts. Can Shreeja prove that the police are ineffective? Can Shiuli prove Shreeja wrong? One morning Shreeja’s ride was stopped at a traffic stop. As a street ripe crime journalist she started digging what the police were searching in all those vehicles. Her meeting with police detectives led her to almost a dozen missing girls. Shreejs started asking uncomfortable questions. The police were weaving a net with the news reports, with the news media response to the abduction of girls and other evidence against the suspect. Can ...

They’d prepared for this moment all their lives without believing anything would ever come of it...they were wrong. Danae knew before she ever heard her brother’s voice that it was bad...and it didn’t take long to find out just how bad it was. She’d always understood the high cost of secrets...and quickly learned that sometimes the price of truths was far more costly. It took her even less time to realize that she’d never really known true fear. She did now and knew that the heart-pounding terror she’d experienced in those handful of moments when a gun was pointed at her brother...

Snooty Chefs, an ATV Race, and a Golden Cleaver Murder Weapon EATS-TV has come to the town of Paint Creek for their first annual Catch'em and Cook'em Smoke Off Competition. But when someone ends up with the Grand Prize lodged in their back side, everyone's appetite crumbles...except for Jake Jr.'s. Mercy is on the hunt, but could she end up being the next victim? Find out in this fall off the bone and succulent 4th book in the Old School Diner Series.

The Sins of the Father When Rayna and her boss attend an exclusive political fundraising, they witness the assassination of the candidate’s wife by masked thugs. Rayna gives chase and narrowly escapes death when their fleeing SUV suddenly and inexplicably blows up. Were the murderers terrorists? Hired killers? Political extremists? As she and her organized vigilante organization dig deeper, they discover that that the rally was the final piece in the puzzle to finance a plot to blow up an abandoned nuclear reactor. The candidate himself and his best friend are the pained masterminds. ...

Miguel was doing time for offenses that he did not commit. Will he be the free man of honor again? Detective Alexis Kawarski of Azusa Police Department was all for catching the criminals and helping the victims of crimes. When she found a body inside the closet of Benjamin King, she was not surprised, but sad. Nobody in the neighborhood was willing to come forward to testify against Benjamin. Alexis needed to search for roundabouts as all straight paths seemed closed for her. An assistant in the office of a defense attorney tried to trade favors with her, in exchange for proving her husband...

A detective mystery book set in London during the early 20th century. After beginning work as Michael Marks's secretary, Kimbrel soon finds himself entangled in a puzzling disappearance. Known for his modern innovations and bachelor lifestyle, Marks mysteriously fails to appear in his home, despite evidence suggesting he returned the previous night. Kimbrel, along with Marks's niece Peggie Marvell and the eccentric Mr. Tertius, begins an investigation that rapidly takes a dark turn when Marks's body is discovered at his estate office, leading to an investigation that peels back layers of ...

An engineer is dead. His friend has been charged with his murder. How many lives would the conspiracy take before it is unveiled to its roots? Blake Turley grew up in a series of foster homes and joined the police force in Page, Arizona to give back to the community. The community of native Navajo people around and the city of vendors and employees of power plants was bewildered by the murder of a young engineer. The evidence pointed towards his colleague and his sole friend in the city. Blake was not convinced about all the evidence, though. The accused claimed of a deeper conspiracy that ...

A devastating fire. A hospital full of immobile helpless patients. A power shifting conspiracy. Can Shreeja and Shiuli get to the bottom of the corruption of power? A fire broke out in a superspecialty hospital in the city. The patients were asphyxiated, choked to death by the fumes while waiting to go home just the morning after. The event brought trauma and despair to the lives of the city. Shreeja started digging what caused the fire and why the rescue operations were insufficient. Shiuli followed the system and hit a wall so big that she doubted if she would ever be able to dig a hole ...

Murder of Emma, the billionaire at twenty-two, threatened the town of business owners. Can the police bring justice before anyone else gets hurt? Detective Avery Hudson thought the dead body at the Crompton Gardens Park would be a routine investigation. When the dead body was identified as the body of Emma Holden, the owner of a tenth of the city real estate, then Avery felt some extra pounds on her shoulder. The entire town is watching Avery with their microscopes. The height of public attention wrecks Avery’s nerves. Investigation of Emma’s murder turns ever more complicated because ...

Lives in the city are all under attack. Can she nab the killer or the attackers before they hurl on another life? Young yet respectable Keira Jones is a detective in the Collinsville Police Department in Illinois. Each case appeared before her as a new challenge as it is difficult for others to accept that her eyes are as sharp as those of the eagles. The difficulty deepens when she is asked to take part in a joint investigation with the federal agents. To prove her smartness she always needed to move fewer steps ahead of her partner from the federal agencies. The stress pushed her on the ...