Mystery · March 2026

Hidden Assets

by Carter Bryson

Retired Treasury forensic accountant Margot Sterling wasn't looking for another case. But when the reserve-fund records of her Florida retirement community land in her hands, she finds something no one else would recognize: the architecture of a five-year fraud — and a dead resident whose name appears in the wrong document the morning after she dies. The money always leaves a trail. So does a killer.

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