Financial Mystery

The perfect safari. Or the perfect deception? Suave and debonaire Mark Dacks has garnered together an intimate group of guests for an exclusive tour of central Africa. A once in a lifetime experience. Or so it seems… Appearing to be the consummate host, Mark, and his hostess, Korina Prague, deal in illicit gems. Unbeknown to their guests, the safari is a front but they are just as valued. During an evening of cocktails and gambolling, Mark slips out for a rendezvous on the slippery steps of Devil’s Gorge. To make an exchange for diamonds. But he’s betrayed. Was he sold out by one of ...

What do you do when your best friend is on the line- the end of your fishing line? Finding his murdered best friend’s body drags a soon-to-be-retiring financial executive into the ruthless world of con artists and scammers that prowl idyllic Nantucket Island for unsuspecting marks. Chief Financial Officer Harry Bartlett hasn’t made plans for his impending retirement, but he’s happy for now vacationing on Nantucket Island at the compound of his best and only friend, Ian Bradford, a wealthy wine merchant. But that abruptly changes when he fishes Ian’s body from a Nantucket Island pond...

Seven years after a financial crisis nearly topples America, traders chafe at government regulations on Wall Street, racial tensions are rising, and corrupt financiers make backdoor deals with politicians.... 1799 was a hell of a year. When young lawyer Justy Flanagan returns to prove his father's innocence, he exposes a massive fraud that has already claimed lives, and one the perpetrators are determined to keep secret at any cost.

Manhattan. FBI Special Agent Silver Cassidy, the head of a task force that's on a collision course with disaster, finds herself fighting impossible odds to stop a serial killer before he can kill again. Struggling to balance the hunt for a savage predator with the challenges of being a single mom, Silver finds herself thrust into a nightmare of brutality that will demand every ounce of determination she possesses to survive. ----- Q&A with Russell Blake Q: Silver Justice is a departure from your usual action/adventure thrillers. Why a police procedural/serial killer epic featuring a female ...

From the fall of empires to the discovery of new lands, these events have reshaped the world as we know it. By studying these historical events, we can gain valuable insights into the nature of Black Swan Events and their long-lasting impacts. The bible, technology or Nostradamus can predict the future and help us to be for ever safe? Off course the 52 wars that we have now in this world are the effect of actions, some of them are catastrophic events.

She has one flight to stop a fake-money operation…laundering millions in the sky. A criminal running a flying art gallery. A luxury jet used to launder counterfeit cash. And one U.S. Secret Service agent with just hours to break the case wide open. Elaine Brogan knows exactly what’s at stake when she boards a luxurious private jet, undercover as a flight attendant. Hidden inside high-end painting crates aren’t just forged Picassos and Monets—they’re are stuffed with near-perfect counterfeit $100 bills. Bills so real, electronic scanners at banks can't tell the difference. The jet ...

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.

Behind The Setting of a Country Club According to Inquisitive Jeff” by James Landsaw is a book that delves into the intriguing and often scandalous world of a country club. The story follows Jeff, a waiter at the club, who uncovers various aspects of life within this exclusive setting. The book explores themes such as gossip, corruption, lifestyles, sex, scandals, racism, drugs, lies, and politics, showing that these issues permeate all levels of society, regardless of class. Jeff’s inquisitive nature leads him to discover that whether one is rich, middle class, or poor, everyone faces ...

Has cyber-crime escalated to murder? Forensic accountant Kat Munro puts her traumatic past behind her and begins dating journalist Connor O’Malley, whose investigations into online crime attract the wrong kind of attention. When a colleague’s teenage son goes missing, and his friend’s body is discovered, Kat finds herself working with DS Adam Jackson again. The murder enquiry leads Adam to an exclusive London school where allegations of drugs, gaming fraud and child pornography abound. As he gets deeper into the investigation, Adam is forced to face issues in his private life while ...

Violent death of a veteran resident in the neighborhood shook everyone. Can Detective Harper Bush find the killer before anyone else is harmed? Detective Harper Bush is a meticulous detective with the Department of Police, Plano, Texas. Murder of Mrs. Tammy Jones appeared to her as a personal blow to her childhood memory of treasure hunting during Halloween for the candies in the neighborhood where she grew up with her sisters. The mystery deepens as another member of the community went missing. The missing person was Harper's English teacher. Harper’s sisters, Alice and Joan, started an ...

A Small Town, Absurdist, Dark Humor from the Twisted Mind of Count Fathom. A dying man delivers, with his last breath, a message to a tavern full of drunks, in a storm. Struck by lightning, this modern prophet says he speaks with the stars and beyond. His message he sets in the hearts of the new apostles. They, in turn, spread the message to build a brand around the Martyr, bringing unity, hope, and financial prosperity to the town, and to themselves most of all. The drunks spill their cups in a mad dash down fortune’s path, as greed leads the town astray. Cursed with the common self-...

The electrifying sequel to THE OPENER! Don Rouse is young, rich, happily married and lives the life of a jet-setting expatriate in Southeast Asia. He also happens to be a master con artist, a manipulative swindler who controls a fictitious firm that convinces unsuspecting clients to place all their money into bogus investment opportunities. Aided by corrupt government officials, crooked cops, and unscrupulous bankers, Don lives a whimsical life of leisure and luxury with his alluring wife Jessica. When a mundane business meeting suddenly turns deadly, Don must use all of his cunning and ...

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.

Two brothers. Three secret service agents. And millions for the taking. Charlie and Oliver Caruso are brothers who work at Greene and Greene, a private bank so exclusive there's a $2 million minimum to be a client. But when the door of success slams in their faces, the brothers are presented with an offer they can't refuse: $3 million in an abandoned account that can't be traced. It's the perfect victimless crime. Charlie and Oliver opt to take the money, but get much more than they bargained for.

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...

As prep school students, Roger and Tom did anything for each other. When Tom found himself in trouble, Roger bailed him out in an act of loyalty that forged their friendship for life. Now, twenty-five years later, they’ve taken decidedly different paths. While Tom owns a small, yet successful investment management firm, Roger is living closer to the edge, in the driver’s seat of a high-risk insurance company. When Roger calls him up asking for help, Tom knows it’s time to return that boyhood favor. The goal? To try and save Roger’s company, a feat that would require Tom to put ...

Cozy mystery CAST THE FIRST STONE introduces Los Angeles business reporter Rebecca Stone. In her first amateur sleuth case she is asked to help determine whether the murder of a Wharton professor spending the summer term at UCLA is connected to The Wharton School. But when this request requires Rebecca to work with a former fiance who dumped her to focus on his Wall Street career, Rebecca is confronted with the moral dilemma of whether the price of Wharton team spirit is too high. Meanwhile, she tries to improve her cooking skills to impress her current fiancé. He doesn't know about her ...

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.

A single number saved her life. Grace knew it was only the beginning. Suddenly, danger surrounded her. She was terrified...the pain was relentless. Nothing in her life prepared her for this. She desperately needed somewhere safe...someplace she could hide. Someone she could trust. It was dark...and getting darker. Ronan Hendricks didn’t recognize her voice. Not family...not friends. Probably not an enemy. He didn’t hear animosity in her voice. But he didn’t need the years he’d spent as a detective to recognize what he did hear... Fear. Ethan Hendricks wasn’t thrilled that his ...

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 ...