Dead on Account (A Rose Bennett Mystery #1)

By Mariah Kingdom

Rose Bennett isn’t your usual private investigator. Specializing in financial crime, she’s become case-hardened to dealing with those who deceive and embezzle in their pursuit of cold, hard cash, and pretty much accustomed to working alone. She’s had no choice really … because Rose is the investigator the East & Northern Bank calls in when the criminal is on the inside, and being the company mole isn’t much of a way to make friends.

The sleepy Yorkshire town of Market Melbourne is in the midst of a summer heatwave when bank clerk Pandora Mitchell disappears. The event shouldn’t be more to Rose than a headline in the local paper. Except that Rose has just arrived from London to investigate an internal bank fraud, and the missing girl held information that was vital to her inquiry.

Rose doesn’t believe in co-incidence. Someone at the bank wanted Pandora out of the way, and as word spreads that Rose is assisting DI George Mulligan to investigate the girl’s disappearance, her colleagues at the bank begin to close ranks against her. But Rose would value a young girl’s life above financial losses every day of the week. There’s more at stake now than a bank’s reputation, and Rose Bennett doesn’t scare that easily …

* Previously published under the title Collusion