The Ledger of Lies by Eve Shaw
The Ledger of Lies by Eve Shaw
English | 2026 | Mystery & Thriller
Criminals use guns, money, and intimidation. Jillian Banks uses an itemized receipt.
At forty-eight, international estate coordinator Jillian Banks doesn’t do espionage. She does appraisals, provenance, and pristine paperwork. Armed with a portable French press and a stainless-steel Parker Jotter, Jillian travels the globe bringing order to the chaotic aftermath of other people’s lives.
But her newest client in Lisbon has left behind a catastrophic liability.
The deceased travel writer was actually an operative mapping a massive human trafficking pipeline across the Mediterranean. Now, a billionaire cartel boss wants the ledger back. When armed hitmen compromise her worksite—and ruin her favorite ivory silk blouse—Jillian refuses to look the other way.
Teaming up with an exhausted, rogue homicide detective, Jillian realizes the only way to save 168 innocent lives is to execute a hostile corporate takeover of a criminal empire. She doesn’t know hand-to-hand combat, but she does know how to orchestrate the OSHA-compliant heist of a fifty-million-dollar masterpiece and weaponize an international insurance claim.
The cartel is about to learn that the most dangerous weapon in Europe is a middle-aged woman with a strictly enforced deadline.
