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 deeper...

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...

Carly Turnquist, forensic accountant, has a nose for mysteries. When a less-than-desirable business has their building permit approved under the table, Carly gets suspicious. But when money is embezzled and her daughter is suspected, her hackles are raise

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. With...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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....

Maria, a Forensic Accountant, wife and mother, whose life's stresses and strains have taken its toll and left her feeling frustrated in life. Given the new task of managing a company and assets of a reclusive business man who dies tragically, until his unidentified beneficiaries take over. Coupled with Paul, a lawyer, a father, stagnant in life since his wife passing years earlier, have to uncover the secrets which are the life Ralph Michael. Challenged...