PRESS RELEASE - Announcing ACCOUNTING FOR CRIME by Richard King
Who says lawyers have all the fun? Richard King’s new novel Accounting for Crime takes you inside the world of business gone right and people gone wrong in a roman a clef that combines intrigue, love triangles, tough talking cops and cold-blooded mobsters. Despite all this, the story has its share of lighthearted, even laugh-out-loud moments.
Robert Scroyle, C.A., is the senior partner at Scroyle, Caitiff, Rudisbe and Spavin. He is married, has a girlfriend or two and is no stranger to a shady tax strategy that’s just this side of legal. Now life is about to get a lot more complicated.
Renzo Villiago is the founder of Ravishing Cosmetics, one of Scroyle’s most important clients. He has to find a business to buy that will solve what he sees as an accounting problem.
Agustinho Bastinhado is an underworld figure with a big problem: too much cash. He has to hide it somewhere fast. Scroyle has to make both men happy or lose his business, maybe even his life.
In a story that plays out on the streets of Montreal and in boardrooms populated by characters who are eerily familiar to anyone who’s ever been in a downtown office building, Scroyle’s life spins out of control and begins to unravel.
Kidnapping, undercover police operations, the netherworld of organized crime, a love story gone sour—this is not what a man who deals in certainties is meant to deal with.
“King . . . has talent and wit and Montreal.”
- Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail
"King’s first novel, That Sleep of Death, “is a tidily written, gripping little mystery.”
- Pat Donnelly, The Gazette
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5 x 8 . 308 pages. ISBN 978-1-926716-07-7. $18.88 For information please contact: |
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