Financial Mysteries Fiction

In Broome's tourist-perfect marina, where million-dollar boats promise wilderness adventures to wealthy visitors, Special Investigator Odysseus "Odie" Kalaris is called to examine what appears to be a robbery gone wrong. What begins as a straightforward marina murder evolves into something far more sinister, revealing connections between luxury tourism and a sophisticated fraud network targeting elderly investors. When Odie's tracking skills expose crime scene staging, he must navigate both the predatory undercurrents of seasonal tourism and the complex relationships that bind Broome's ...

As DS Lucas Walker recovers from his injuries, he heads from Caloodie, Queensland, to the Gold Coast. Surfer's Paradise: a seaside city where gleaming high rises fringe sparkling surf beaches, sunny days lead to wild nights, and criminals and bikie gangs mingle with tourists and dignitaries at five star hotels, clubs and casinos. Before long, Walker is part of a team trying to solve a horrific home invasion and murder that has claimed the life of a young mother and left her nine-year-old daughter fighting to survive. Can he help them find the perpetrators, and keep the young girl safe?

In this 4th novel in the UNDERCOVER HILLBILLY MYSTERY SERIES, Billy Hill interrupts a burglary in progress in the apartment next door to his in Linden, Texas. That chance encounter tests Billy's rusty cage-fighting skills and leads him to Pecan Island, Louisiana where he becomes enmeshed in a complex mystery involving a gorgeous girl who is up against the awesome power of the corrupt Biden government. Never underestimate the ingenuity of an honest but stubborn backwoods boy. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a quirky Canadian lawyer who has penned more than 90 novels since his ...

Ghost Hunters on the Loose The Grumpy Chicken Pub is infiltrated by a famous Ghost Hunting television show and our ghost chicken is not amused. When one of the ghost hunting crew ends up on the opposite side of the living, Ginger and her ragtag of misfits leap into action. Will the Grumpy Chicken ghost help solve the crime like before, or are there more ghosts to contend with? Find out in this next installment of The Grumpy Chicken Irish Pub Series.

Charlie and Oliver Caruso are brothers who work at Greene & Greene, a private bank so exclusive you need two million dollars just to be a client. But when the door of success slams in their faces, they're faced with an offer they can't refuse: three million dollars in an abandoned account. No one knows it exists, and even better, it doesn't belong to anyone.

This is an uplifting Christmas story about two rival small town lawyers who loathe each other. Raymond Collins is a totally honest guy but a financial failure as an attorney. Parker Jones is the complete opposite, a rich, greedy and shady lawyer. Both run their legal practices in the tiny town of Lakeport, Ontario and they shower each other with caustic insults whenever they meet. When Jones concocts a brilliant scheme to ruin Collins, a series of complex events unfold which ultimately give rise to unexpected payback in the form of The Christmas Lawyer. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. ...

In this second novel in the UNDERCOVER HILLBILLY SERIES, the reclusive Billy Hill buys a failing motel in Monticello, Mississippi. As he attempts to turn the business around and run the motel all by himself, trouble arrives. Billy will require all of his financial acumen to improve the motel's bottom line, and he'll also need every ounce of his rusty illegal cage-fighting skills to stay alive. By the way, Billy must also convince the cops that he didn't murder anyone. Mortal danger and false clues can lurk even in quiet small towns. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired ...

Lieutenant Ethan Hendricks’ greatest nightmare just also happens to be his grandfather’s newest business venture. Logan Hendricks is thrilled about his brand new detective agency’s first case, but things weren’t turning out the way they were supposed to, including the attempted murder of one of his brand new employees. But he figures their next case, which involves finding a missing sister, should go a lot smoother. How dangerous could it be? Ethan Hendricks wasn’t quite as confident about his grandfather’s new hobby, or that the supposedly straight-forward case of a missing ...

OVER 1,500,000 COPIES SOLD, AMAZON HAS SAID, "WE ARE INSPIRED BY THE SUCCESS OF THIS WRITER AND HOW HE IS DELIGHTING READERS"--AMAZON PRESS RELEASE 10/15/18 It was just a quick sandwich in the hospital cafeteria... But when she returned to her daughter's room... Whatever happened to Melissa's daughter is anyone's guess. The police seal the hospital doors; a search proceeds but the four-year-old is nowhere to be found The girl is gone, vanished without a ransom note, without a body being found, without a trace. The detectives believe she has most likely been sold into human trafficking. No ...

This novel is a financial thriller that commences before World War Two and concludes in the mid-1980s. A family in the precious metals business must flee Nazi Germany, eventually settling on the West Coast of the United States. The grandson of the family patriarch becomes the primary perpetrator of an elaborately constructed white-collar crime that will bring him vast riches and power. But will events progress exactly as the grandson and a mysterious mentor have meticulously planned? Could a young woman from the poor side of the tracks, tutored by a generous and genius benefactor, derail ...

This novel is the 4th in the six-book Slimy Lawyer Series about Slymon "Slimy" Robichaud, a shyster attorney adept at putting his own interests ahead of those of his unfortunate clients. When Slimy is caught giving under-the-table bribes to real estate agents in order to secure client referrals, his penalty is a four month period of disbarment. Using a phony name in order to avoid humiliation but retain at least a bit of income, Slimy gets a job washing cars at an automobile dealership during the lonely night shift. That's when his new secret life becomes filled with danger and drives poor ...

“Daddy, why isn’t that man swimming?” Stand-Alone story of a wealthy private equity investor and a greedy CEO's quest to maximize profit at any cost. The body floating near the family’s sailboat triggers a request for Steve Wilson to complete the dead man's due diligence assignment. Join Steve as he navigates a path between power-driven executives to uncover the truth about the accountant's body in Boothbay Harbor. Why are Steve’s requests for financial data stonewalled at every turn? Is it just arrogance and greed, or an attempt to hide something deeper? Can he trust the woman ...

Chauncey Hanna grew up a troubled child on Winton Island with his twin brother, Carlos. He resents his mother for abandoning them when they were toddlers to pursue her dreams abroad. To make a future for himself, Chauncey borrows $1,000 from an infamous drug lord and childhood friend, Ace Johnson. But when Chauncey offers to repay the loan in cash, Ace refuses and dictates his own terms for repayment. To make matters worse, Chauncey’s relationship with his mother continues to deteriorate even as Carlos who joins the church encourages him to forgive her. Will Chauncey concede to Ace’s ...

The mysterious, violent death of a prominent New England patriarch exposes a nest of dark family secrets in bestselling author Richard North Patterson’s twentieth compelling novel. Adam Blaine arrives on the island of Martha’s Vineyard to attend the funeral of his estranged father, Ben Blaine, a famous and charismatic writer who has served as patriarch of his clan for many years.

An exhilarating adventure set in the Netherlands, Croatia, Italy, Luxembourg, and Turkey about stolen art, the mafia, and a father’s vengeance. When researcher Zelda Richardson begins working at a local museum, she doesn’t expect to get entangled with an art theft, knocked unconscious by a forger, threatened by the mob, or stalked by drug dealers. To make matters worse, a Croatian gangster is convinced Zelda knows where a cache of recently pilfered paintings is. She must track down an international gang of art thieves and recover the stolen artwork in order to save those she loves most....

With debt-burdened governments and businesses worldwide about to go bust, a cabal of Wall Street big shots plot to destroy the globe’s stock exchanges. In 24 hours, a powerful computer worm will smash the exchanges and spark an international panic, pushing a debt-laden world into the abyss. But one person, who works for their bank as a computer expert, spots the worm embedded deep in its network. Cassy Levin invents a program to destroy the cyber-intruder. Angered by Cassy’s discovery, her bosses order her kidnapping.

Fueled by resentment of America's global dominance, Russia and China conspire to dethrone the US Dollar from its lofty perch as the global reserve currency. Their weapon of choice? Bitcoin - a game-changing digital currency shrouded in mystery, with an enigmatic developer who walked away from a 70-billion-dollar fortune rather than see his creation corrupted by evil.

Despite growing up in poverty, Pierre Lachance made it to law school where he developed an intense dislike of money and those snobs who had lots of it. When his government legal job in Northern Ontario is eliminated, Pierre heads south to start a new life. After rescuing a wealthy stranded motorist and his dog in a wicked snowstorm, Pierre is asked to use his real estate expertise and go undercover to investigate some property holdings in Dallas, Texas. That plunges Pierre into an intriguing financial mystery. As luck would have it, Pierre also meets a dazzling but wealthy beauty in Dallas....

This is the 3rd novel in the UNDERCOVER HILLBILLY SERIES. In this story, Billy Hill travels to the tiny town of Linden, Texas. After bailing a pretty attorney out of a financial jam, Billy is faced with what can only be described as a very stinky mystery. Can a home-schooled hillbilly from the backwoods of northern Vermont solve this smelly puzzle? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who took up writing novels as a retirement hobby. Always a proponent of quantity over quality, Donald has churned out more than 90 novels since he retired in 2009. Please check ...

Alex has it all—love, success, prestige. But someone is watching, waiting, ready to destroy her. Can she survive? I bolt upright in my bed, startled. Did I scream? I hold my breath and listen intently. Nothing moves. Protected by darkness, I lean on my pillow and linger in the sweet realization that the nightmare wasn’t real. I am OK. Then reality hits. I am not OK. My life is falling apart. Fast. Looking in from the outside, I am still living my dream. I have a loving husband, wonderful home, thriving business, recognition, prestige. Seemingly I have it all. But I don’t… I am ...