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"Accounting and Murder Around the World is an exciting sequel to Steve McMillan's Whodunit Award-winning mystery, Accounting Can Be Murder. A collection of three novellas, it proves he's not just a one-time wonder when it comes to gripping storytelling."
Nobody expects the accountant. Ben and Sharon pack a calculator and a badge for Malta, Belgium, and Finland - three vacations that keep turning into murder investigations.
Most people go to Malta for the beaches. Ben Stone, forensic-accounting professor, goes for a conference - and somehow leaves with a dead businessman, a mysterious Russian, and a partner, Philadelphia detective Sharon Levin, who cannot resist investigating on a trip that was supposed to be a vacation. So begins a three-country run of crimes the pair keep accidentally solving. In Belgium it's chocolate, diamonds, and a set of books that are just a little too tidy. In Finland it's saunas, spotless institutions, and fraud that apparently doesn't speak Finnish either. Armed with a calculator, a badge, and their CIA friend Debbi on speed-dial, this odd-couple duo proves the oldest rule in crime: cook the books long enough, and eventually somebody dies over the leftovers. Wry, brainy, and hardboiled to the last decimal.