John Fisher
Modest schoolmaster Justin Stead has little interest in money until the mysterious source of his mother’s income is hijacked. In solving a murderous riddle he discovers he is the unwitting heir to a huge criminal fortune from a father he never knew.
Best selling title to date, a crime thriller which starts in 1960s
"A well told story that had me gripped from the start, nearly fell away a little, and then picked up the pace. Will certainly see if the author has other titles"
Kindle Review
"Really interesting read. Not sure how it would all play out in the modern age, but this was probably easy during the timeframe of that era" Good Reads
"Really interesting read. Not sure how it would all play out in the modern age, but this was probably easy during the timeframe of that era" Good Reads
Accidental Money Launderer principle characters
Jack Cooper
Jack left school in the 1962 and went straight into the family firm turning down the opportunity to go to university out of a sense of duty to his parents whose sacrifice had paid for his schooling.
Jack was a thoroughly honest and decent man when he left Shrewsbury school and expected no less from all his contemporaries. It was therefor a terrible shock when an old classmate turned banker stole his family fortune, and a reflection of Jacks expectations of others that it took him so long to discover the truth. It was this discovery that was a turning point and changed Jack completely.
Jack was a thoroughly honest and decent man when he left Shrewsbury school and expected no less from all his contemporaries. It was therefor a terrible shock when an old classmate turned banker stole his family fortune, and a reflection of Jacks expectations of others that it took him so long to discover the truth. It was this discovery that was a turning point and changed Jack completely.
Giselle Mortimer
Giselle was a petty criminal that Jack first encountered in Spain, but Jack saw in her an ally, and she became key to the secretive world of Jack's empire.
Like Jack she her character was formed by her early life, and in other circumstances she might have been the society lady from the start.
Through her association with Jack she is lifted from what might otherwise have been a downward only spiral.
By the time she meets Justin there is little of the girl his father encountered thirty years earlier.
It is through her that Justin is able to resolve the puzzle behind his own history and his mother's good fortune.
It is through her that Justin is able to resolve the puzzle behind his own history and his mother's good fortune.
Justin Stead
Justin was an unknowing copy of his father when his father was young. Justin believed he was the son of a banker who he had never known, and of who little reference was made through Justin's early life. By the time he arrives in the book he is well established as the head of an independent school where he is able to influence the moral behaviour of staff and pupils alike.
The world he encounters when a crooked lawyer and accountant try to sieze his mother's mysterious source of income is as foreign to him it could possibly be representing everything that Justin deplored, immorality, greed and crime.
Yet through this brief encounter with the underside of life he survives to be a better man.