Accounting and Murder Around the World

“Accounting and Murder Around the World is an exciting sequel to Steve McMillan’s Whodunit Award-winning mystery, Accounting Can Be Murder. A collection of three novellas, it proves he’s not just a one-time wonder when it comes to gripping storytelling.”

Ben Stone and Sharon Levin go to an academic conference on accounting in Malta, where Ben will be presenting a paper based on how accounting rules in the US can be used to manipulate company earnings to the benefit of the company. They arrive a few days early and spend some time traveling through Malta, Gozo, and Comino. At the conference dinner, a Maltese businessman asks Ben for help in using the accounting rules in the US to minimize his tax liability. Then, Ben is approached by a mysterious Russian who says he did business with the murdered man. Being an enforcement officer, Sharon feels she must do some investigating on her own. And then things get dangerous. This is the first of three stories that mix a CPA’s eye for facts with an investigator’s nose for malfeasance. From Malta to Belgium to Finland, this couple is on the case when it comes to solving crimes.

G. Steven McMillan is an associate professor at the Abington campus of Penn State University. Prior to joining academia, Steve worked in accounting and real estate in the Philadelphia area. He has received four Fulbright awards that have taken him to Finland, Belgium, and Malta twice. An avid traveler, he has visited over 30 countries.