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1) Fraud
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Whoever coined the phrase "Love at first sight" was a total loser.
The first time I laid eyes on Kate O'Malley with that shy, timid beauty — the only thing I felt was pure satisfaction. She was the world's most famous author, hiding in plain sight. And me? I was the guy about to blow her cover.
Love at second glance? Third? Maybe even fourth? Now that's something I could get on board with. The longer I hung around Kate, trying to get to the bottom...
2) FRAUD
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Eleven years together and today I find out . . . I don't know the first thing about the man I'm sleeping beside every night. My marriage is built on a bed of lies . . . Nothing is real. Each day I'm barely surviving, falling deeper into despair and loneliness. Meeting Hayes Taylor is not in my plan. Younger, beautiful and broken-just like me. I feel a connection with him I've never experienced before. But I am a married woman, and cheating isn't in...
3) The fraud
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"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper -- and cousin by marriage -- of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also skeptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a...
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"Crazy Rich Asians meets The Devil Wears Prada in this millennial women's fiction novel by debut author Kyla Zhao about a working class woman who infiltrates Singapore's high society to fulfill her dreams, only to lose herself in the process. For as long as she can remember, Samantha Song has dreamed of having her own byline in a high-society magazine -- and she'd do anything to get there. But the constant struggle to help her mom make ends meet and...
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A Sinister Crime Lies Deep Underwater...A Katerina Carter Legal Thriller. The fraud investigator Katerina Carter's trip to a remote island aboard a luxurious yacht, she suspects the boat's slick and charming owner is hiding a dark secret. With her cunning instinct for sniffing out malevolent cons, Kat tries to warn her friends that something is very wrong with their host and that his moneymaking scheme smells fishy.
And why is she only one who thinks...
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Diamonds, Danger, and Disappearance - A Katerina Carter Legal Thriller
When Liberty Diamond Mines CEO Susan Sullivan hires Kat to find Liberty's missing CFO and embezzled money, she's eager to accept the job. But her excitement soon turns to terror when two company employees are brutally murdered. Kat realizes that this investigation is much more dangerous than she had ever imagined when she uncovers a sinister connection between blood diamonds and...
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What money can't buy, murder can.
Someone is siphoning funds from billionaire Zachary Barron's currency hedge fund. Intent on prosecuting the thief to the fullest extent of the law, he hires Katerina "Kat" Carter, the best forensic accountant in the business, to follow the money trail. Both are shocked when it leads to Zachary's father, Nathan. And he's just the tip of the iceberg.
Nathan belongs to a shadowy organization with global ties and unimaginable...
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In How to Smell a Rat, Ken Fisher takes an engaging and informative look at recent and historic examples of fraudsters, how they operated, and how they can be easily avoided. Fisher shows readers the quick, identifiable features of potential financial fraudsters. Readers will learn the questions to ask when assessing a money manager and how to spot red flags. There should be a premium for integrity. Asking the right questions and looking for the right...
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Mail fraud and wire fraud are among the most common white-collar cases prosecuted by the US government. Barely a day goes by without a mail fraud or wire fraud case appearing in the newspaper or on television news. The headlines are sensational: "Businessman Defrauds Clients of Millions of Dollars" or "Local Church Members Defrauded of Millions," but what exactly are mail fraud and wire fraud?
This book examines these two related statutes to help...
10) Fraud Prevention
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Recent studies have indicated that the average corporation loses 1-6% per year of their revenue to fraud. The author has put together a book which covers every necessary aspect of protecting a privately-held company, or a publicly-held company, from the risks of fraud. Corporate Governance principles, an analysis of the Enron trial, and practical case studies abound in this volume. Whether you are a Private Investigator needing a Guide to Forensics,...
11) Dark Fraud
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An orchestrated attack … A shameless deception … A ghost from the past …
When the cargo freighter Mount Olympia is destroyed by fire, the ship's owner is quick to file an insurance claim against their lost asset. But when the investigator sent to inspect the damage turns up dead, the insurance company dispatches their best investigator, Emily Hunt.
Sensing his fiancée might need protection, former Navy EOD tech turned commercial diver Ryan...
12) Fraud Squad
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When Trevor, Nick and Robyn visit the Royal Tyrrell Museum, Robyn is inspired to raise funds for a dinosaur dig that will close soon if it doesn't find funding. The kids are caught up in another mystery when a chain of suspicious events, including the disappearance of important fossils and a fraudulent discovery at the dig, leads them to wonder what's going on. Is the new visiting scientist behind the fraud, or did Robyn's enthusiasm to save the dig...
13) Football Fraud
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When DeSean Mitchell makes an embarrassing mistake while showboating in the end zone, he ends up costing his football team the game. In the final play, he's tackled and lies on the field in defeat. A teammate assumes he is hurt, and rather than face the shame of his mistake, DeSean fakes an injury. How long will DeSean let the deception go on?
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"A famous actor and an experienced journalist present an entertaining debunking of cryptocurrency, from its initial promise of taking power from banks while providing quick riches to its current spectacular crash"--
"At the height of the pandemic, TV star Ben McKenzie was the perfect mark for cryptocurrency: a dad stuck at home with some cash in his pocket, worried about his family, armed with only the vague notion that people were making heaps of...
15) Genuine fraud
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264 pages ; 22 cm
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Told through flashbacks, best friends Jule and Imogen are orphaned outcasts who will do almost anything to attain a happy, wealthy life.
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xix, 246 pages ; 23 cm
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"A darkly comic inquiry into how to fake your own death, the disappearance industry, and the lengths to which people will go to be reborn. Is it still possible to fake your own death in the twenty-first century? With six figures of student loan debt, Elizabeth Greenwood was tempted to find out."--
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More than 300 years ago, Taiwan was a controversial topic in London, thanks to a stupendous fraud perpetrated by a Frenchman claiming to have been born there. He made up an entire fantasy for the island with a fake history, a fake language and long list of outrageous claims that made his book, A Description of Formosa, a publishing sensation in London in 1704. Even the Bishop of London swallowed Psalmanazar's story and invited him to teach his (fake)...
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Sid Hebert is in jail for murder, but Ev and Shorty are on it! Evangeline enjoys small town life in Graisseville, Louisiana, and her new found talent for solving crimes. An old friend asks her to prove his uncle Sid's innocence, which intrigues Ev. Follow our sleuth as she travels to Baton Rouge for the next case, with her frustrating but loveable private investigator close beside her. Help Ev and Shorty find the clues and solve the case, with a bit...
20) Fraud Twice Felt
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Three weeks after solving his old boyfriend's murder, bounty hunter Derwin Bryant is trying to let go of the past and embrace his new life with Elliot Leed, a former rentboy and fellow Oddity. Elliot, meanwhile, is trying to adjust to working at Bob's Bail Bonds and having a real relationship despite his strange power of Object Reading. Hanging over the couple is the fear that Roy Yoshiro, notorious gang lord, will make good on his threats to claim...
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