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Peter Strand is half Chinese and half Cherokee and was adopted by an elderly white couple from Phoenix. Now he's a forensic accountant in San Francisco, where he's struggling with his identity.
When his employer asks him to investigate a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization, Strand meets a cast of quirky characters who all seem to be hiding a secret. Peter soon finds evidence of a probable fraud, but when fraud leads to murder, he's drawn...
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A murder at the Blue Dragon, a small apartment building in San Francisco's Chinatown, prompts the absentee owner to hire Chinese American Peter Strand to calm the anxious tenants. But Strand isn't exactly what he appears to be. Neither are the tenants, who on the surface seem to be regular people going about their lives. Strand, a forensic accountant by trade, doesn't intend to investigate the murder, but he soon realizes that this isn't a gang-related...
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Lynn has worked herself ragged the last nine years to establish her own forensic accounting business. Now in its second year, she's hopeful at the showing of a future uptick in profits. After nearly a decade, her hard work is paying off.
Alex knows something's wrong with the profit margins of the family tech business. It's taken him close to a year from his promotion to the Vice President of Finance to get his suspicions solidified in a plan. But...
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In a world of Gastons, how does Beauty find her Beast?
Stuart 'the Beast' McAlister feels cursed. His new whisky is ruined, his family are at each other's throats and their distillery is missing a fortune.
Forensic accountant, Amanda Turner, arrives in Scotland determined to catch a thief and earn her promotion.
When Beauty meets the Beast, she finds him cocky and rude. Stuart thinks she's the most beautiful woman he's ever seen. The more they work...
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Dan Taylor is trying to keep a low profile when an old friend contacts the Energy Protection Group seeking his help.
The man's daughter is alone in North Africa, and her life is in grave danger.
Thrust back into active duty, Dan realizes that getting Anna to safety is only half his problem. The forensic accountant holds the key to preventing Western Sahara from descending into chaos, and exposing the puppet masters behind an imminent coup d'etat.
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The fourth and final installment in Ian Hamilton's exhilarating Ava Lee spin-off series The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung.
Following a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Uncle begins preparing for his inevitable death. As he sets his affairs in order, he recalls the moments in his life that meant the most to him - including his first encounter with the talented forensic accountant Ava Lee and the origins of their life-changing partnership.
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L'enquête pour fraude de la juricomptable Katerina Carter révèle l'existence d'un système de Ponzi massif lié au mystérieux World Institute, un think tank mondial aux desseins inavoués et terrifiants. Kat est prise au piège d'une conspiration politique aux enjeux majeurs. Les acteurs feront tout ce qu'ils peuvent pour arriver à leur fin, mais c'est un jeu qu'elle ne peut pas se permettre de perdre.
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Diamonds, danger, and a deadly secret... A Katerina Carter Fraud Thriller
Private investigator and forensic accountant Katerina Carter uncovers a sinister connection between blood diamonds and organized crime. Then two company employees are brutally murdered and her investigation becomes much more dangerous than she had ever imagined. Can she can stay alive long enough to expose the real criminals...or will her first case be her last?
10) No Safe Place
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He lives by the law.
She's running for her life.
After forensic accountant Beth Greenwood uncovers a money-laundering scheme tying her company to the organization that murdered her mentor, she knows she needs to go into hiding. With ruthless killers in pursuit, she's forced to rely on homeland security agent Corbin Ross's protection-even as his investigation suggests Beth is complicit in embezzlement. Can their uneasy alliance develop into something...
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The prequel to the wildly popular Ava Lee series.Young Ava Lee is a forensic accounting who has just opened her own private firm. One of her clients, Hedrick Lo, has been swindled of more than a million dollars by a Chinese importer named Johnny Kung. Desperate, Lo persuades Ava to find and retrieve the monies owed. Ava goes to Hong Kong, where she plunges into the dangerous underground collection business and meets a man who will forever change her...
12) Puzzle
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A CIA analyst meets his match in a nerdy forensic accountant...
Branson loves his job as an analyst for the CIA. Working on the investigation into the assassination of the president is fascinating, and even more so when Ryder, a geeky forensic accountant without a filter, joins the team.
But Ryder doesn't seem to like Branson. At all. And when he explains to Branson why, Branson is forced to face an uncomfortable truth in the mirror Ryder holds up....
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The book give the background of forensic accountant Charles Bennett and a blow by blow as to how he tackled one of the largest sports disputes between NBA owners and players in the 1990s. Related stories focus on other NBA-related forensic engagements of the author during the same time period. All were related to his work with the NBA PLAYERS ASSOCIATION (NBPA),
The Appendix includes related news articles from the time period that show how the main...
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Get the very first book in the wildly popular Ava Lee series, which includes the prequel The Dragon Head of Hong Kong. In the first electrifying book of the series, Ian Hamilton introduces us to Ava Lee the smartest, most stylish heroine in crime fiction since Lisbeth Salandar. Ava Lee is a young Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant who works for an elderly Hong Kong based Uncle, who may or may not have ties to the Triads. At 115 lbs., she hardly...
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Are you in desperate need of a miracle? Got globs of money? Then come get fixed up with Lester Benny, a shady televangelist with astonishing healing powers. However, forensic accountant Winston Donovan smells a fraud-- and trying to expose Lester as a scam artist is proving near impossible, despite Winston's own preternatural powers. Could it be divine intervention or a clever hoax? Miracle Kingdom is a playful detective story that examines the clandestine...
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With a nose for the truth and a flair for the dramatic, Ben Jonson investigates five cases of financial irregularities, where all is not as it seems at first, and in the process, demonstrates that accountants are not always dull and boring… In the title story, Ben Jonson, forensic accountant extraordinaire, auditions for the local amateur operatic society, then finds himself defending its director against an accusation of embezzlement. Meanwhile,...
17) 100 Swings
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When forensic accountant Gene Spaulding hands artist Lizzie Vaughn his business card at a gallery opening, it triggers events that link a mother, her daughter, their lovers, an art camp in the Sierras, an empty house in the high desert and Los Angeles in the 1980s. The addiction to notoriety, the imperative of memories and the desires of a would-be player test the loyalties of friends and families. It is nearly twenty years after the Summer of Love...
18) Unbalanced
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Carly Turnquist, forensic accountant, is at home in Bear Cove, Maine, happily planning her son's wedding, when she sees a bank robbery. The only problem is that nobody else sees the robbery, and when she tries to investigate, her credibility is called into question. Add into the mix her husband's long-lost brother who turns up then promptly leaves town, neglecting to take his young son with him, and Carly is up to her ears again in mystery and intrigue....
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Fifty million dollars has disappeared into thin air from the accounts of one of the richest men in the Philippines, Tommy Ordonez. His one hope is forensic accountant and sleuth, Ava Lee. With the help of her Triad-connected partner, Uncle, Ava follows the money trail from San Francisco to Costa Rica to the casinos and illegal gambling dens of Las Vegas. Will Ava recover the stolen cash without stepping into the crosshairs of a growing list of enemies?...
20) Going Deeper
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As a forensic accountant, Heather spends her life crawling through complicated financial records, finding errors that most corporate people can't even see. Then again, she marches to her own drum. The shrinks call her neurodivergent. Heather prefers "different" instead. She lives in a second-hand bunker outside Seattle - fewer distractions that way. Maybe she enjoys the work. Maybe not. People pay her good money for her brains. But her current case...
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