Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 152, Nos. 5 & 6. Whole Nos. 926 & 927, November/December 2018

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Michael Sears is the author of four thrillers in the series to which this story belongs, the latest 2016’s Saving Jason. “If someone had told me one of my favorite new series would he about a disgraced Wall Street trader turned financial wrongdoings investigator,” the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s reviewer said, “I would not have put money on it. But Sears’ Jason Stafford series is so compelling you’ll he turning pages even fall you balance is your checkbook.”

“Jason! Come here, please,” the love of my life called. Skeli’s voice, though controlled, revealed a nervousness bordering on panic.

Skeli rarely succumbed to panic, though there were, and had been, any number of instances that might have warranted such a response. There was my career investigating financial fraud, which had often led me into life-threatening situations; our daughter, two months past her first birthday and frighteningly mobile; and there was my beautiful eight-year-old son, Jay, a.k.a. the Kid, whose life was always in a state of chaos. I was betting on the last of these.

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