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Overview
A death that looks like a heart attack. A fortune that doesn't add up. And the only person who notices is the one they hired to stay quiet.
Elise Maren is a forensic accountant who follows money for a living. When an elderly patriarch dies of a heart attack in his home office, his children hire her to audit the estate - they suspect their father's financial advisor of mismanagement. The case should be straightforward. It isn't. The patriarch was eighty-one. He'd been in perfect health. Three weeks before he died, he wired two million dollars to an offshore account with no listed recipient. The trust structure Elise finds has been deliberately obscured. The property holdings include assets that shouldn't exist. And the law firm that's been advising this family for sixty years has connections that go deeper than anyone will admit. Elise follows the thread - from New England to Manhattan to a room that feels wrong the moment she steps inside it - and discovers that the people she keeps finding are all connected to a network that goes back further than anyone will admit. What she doesn't know yet: someone in that network knows she's looking. The Mourning Fee is Book One of The Lineage Files - a gothic mystery series about the weight of inherited money, the secrets families keep, and the forensic accountant who finds the cracks they can't afford to have seen.This item is Non-Returnable
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- ISBN-13: 9798191345291
- ISBN-10: 9798191345291
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: August 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.47 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.51 pounds
- Page Count: 186
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