JoCoLibrary - Adult Fiction - Tax Tales
Annotation:The members of the eccentric Cathprice family find their way of life threatened when the tax inspector arrives for an audit.
Annotation:Having only used his psychic abilities to improve his lifestyle, Travis Anderson finds his circumstances faltering after a damning IRS audit before he meets a cult member who challenges Travis to use his powers for good.
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Annotation:Sasha Gardner, a feared tax auditor, finds her world turned upside-down when she is hired to audit the tax return of Jonah Gray, a man whom she has never seen, but who seems like the perfect eligible bachelor on paper.
Annotation:Impoverished attorney John Sutter and his wife find their world colliding with that of their new neighbor, Frank "the Bishop" Bellarosa, when John is forced to defend Frank in a murder trial.
Annotation:The mysterious death of her boss during an investigation of Elbridge Coleman, a high-profile Senate candidate, leads Jesse Hayes, a young IRS agent, along a perilous trail of high-level intrigue, corruption, and murder, with billions of dollars of defense contracts at stake.
Annotation:Hoping to put more excitement in her marriage, housewife Cassandra Sales gets a facelift, but her surprise for her husband goes badly awry when he is incapacitated, a situation that reveals shocking secrets about her "perfect" mate and sparks her own vengeful scheme.
Annotation:A twisting, turning, terrifying thriller that takes place in the span of a single day, where no one is completely innocent.
Annotation:Witnessing the rise and loss of her family's oil business in the wake of her father's gambling problems, proud young Jeanine accompanies the other women in her family to an abandoned farm when her father dies under dubious circumstances.
Annotation:Disappointing his family with his choice to become a tax collector, Levi abandons his initial calling to become a priest and begins questioning the nature of his existence after hearing rumors about a man who is reputed to be the prophesied Messiah.
Annotation:Having lost her fiancé to another woman and her savings to a dishonest accountant, Dr. Isabel Favor seeks emotional shelter in Italy, where she encounters Hollywood actor Lorenzo Gage.
Annotation:Reluctantly investigating a kidnapping threat against his ex-girlfriend's billionaire beau, Doc Sportello tackles a bizarre tangle of nefarious characters and his own marijuana habit before stumbling on a mysterious entity that may actually be a tax shelter for a dental group.
Annotation:Building a fantasy life based on what she learns by snooping through the homes of her clients, dog walker Nina Shepard begins a haphazard affair with Daniel that is challenged by misrepresentations and misconceptions on both sides.
Annotation:Emerging from an ugly divorce in the early 1980s, real estate salesman Joe Stratford is reluctant to join his friend Marcus in a get-rich-quick scheme and wonders about the advances of a free-spirited married woman.
Annotation:Striving to find a foothold in the modern world, receptionist Lou Jones finds her life unexpectedly complicated by a music society, a gun-wielding tax assessor, a busybody mother, and her unemployed husband.
Annotation:When Elizabeth Eliot arrives at the house of Hope Laughton, only to discover that her friend has been killed and that she has become the prime suspect in the crime, the clerk of Quaker Meeting in Cambridge finds she must find the killer herself.
Annotation:When Philip Drem, the most feared and hated IRS auditor is murdered, Jill Smith finds a long list of suspects among Berkeley's eclectic community.
Annotation:A grieving widow asks Perry Mason to locate Gladys Foss, the nurse and secret lover of her late husband and a woman who has taken off with a king's ransom in undeclared cash.
Annotation:Going through a divorce and custody battle, Davis O’Kane thought his life had reached its lowest point until he finds a dead body in his restaurant.
Annotation:During the McCarthy era, Easy Rawlins is caught between a vengeful IRS employee and an FBI agent who wants to use him as an undercover operative.
Annotation:Discovering the murdered body of a neighbor in the home of a corrupt tax assessor, poet Victoria Trumbull stumbles across two additional bodies before teaming up with an old rival, chauffeur Emery Meyer, to identify the killer.
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Want some fun while you procrastinate filing your taxes? Pick up one of these fiction books just in time for tax day.