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IRS

Modern Crime 101

By Drew Chapman

February 16, 2016

You’ll never see it coming. You’ll be going about your daily life, riding the bus to work in the morning, sipping your Starbucks and reading the news on your phone—when out of nowhere, a collection agency will call. They’ll say you owe a credit card company $15,000. Actually, three credit card companies and a dermatologist’s…

Death, Taxes, and a Chocolate Cannoli: New Excerpt

By Diane Kelly

October 3, 2015

Death, Taxes and a Chocolate Cannoli by Diane Kelly is the 9th cozy mystery in the IRS Special Agent Tara Holloway series (available October 6, 2015). He's no Tony Soprano. Still, local crime boss Giustino “Tino” Fabrizio is one shady character that Tara would love to see behind bars. He operates a security business—or so…

Death, Taxes, and Cheap Sunglasses: New Excerpt

By Diane Kelly

March 1, 2015

Death, Taxes, and Cheap Sunglasses by Diane Kelly is the 8th cozy mystery in the IRS Special Agent Tara Holloway series where this time her boyfriend is going deep undercover to catch a drug cartel (available March 3, 2015). IRS Special Agent Tara Holloway can calculate tax penalties to the penny. But seeing the world…

Death, Taxes, and Silver Spurs: A New Excerpt

By Diane Kelly

July 25, 2014

Death, Taxes, and Silver Spurs by Diane Kelly is the 7th romantic mystery in the Tara Holloway series featuring the IRS Special Agent (available July 29, 2014). HE’S ONE OF AMERICA’S BRIGHTEST STARS. So maybe it goes without saying that IRS Special Agent Tara Holloway is star-struck? She’s head over heels…in trouble. Easy’s getting harder…

Death, Taxes and Extra-Hold Hairspray by Diane Kelly

Fresh Meat: Death, Taxes, and Extra-Hold Hairspray by Diane Kelly

By Leigh Neely

June 13, 2012

Death, Taxes, and Extra-Hold Hairspray by Diane Kelly is the third in the Tara Holloway IRS agent mystery series (available June 26, 2012). Tara Holloway generally has a lot of boring days doing tax collections for the Internal Revenue Service. As an agent for the despised government entity, she’s very serious about getting what Uncle…

What dark secrets lie within your tax prep paperwork

Your CPA Has Got Your Number

By Diane Kelly

October 28, 2011

It’s no secret that people consider CPAs to be hopeless nerds. After all, only a total dork with lousy social skills would want to sit at a desk all day dealing with boring numbers, right? Except numbers aren’t nearly as boring as one might think. On the contrary, numbers are, in fact, nasty little snitches.…

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