Audio Excerpt  From Face Value
FACE VALUE
Fledgling executive Grace Quinn faces the ultimate challenge: babysitting a national convention of CPAs. There are compensations. She’s dazzled by a priceless Chinese treasure, the Golden Abacus, and intrigued by a fiendish plot to defraud taxpayers of millions. Grace expects to die of boredom, but as the body counts rises, she finds that a cunning murderer has other plans. From the Smithsonian Institution to the hot spots of Washington D.C., Grace pursues a trail of clues and suspects. Both her suspicions and passions are aroused by the gorgeous cultural attaché Patrick Fong, who appears at the most inopportune times. Is he an ardent lover or a clever criminal? Grace finds the answer to the puzzle much closer to home than she ever imagined.

Audio Excerpt  From Profit and Loss

PROFIT AND LOSS
Manhattan is the toughest Federal office in the nation. A demoralized Grace Quinn, abandoned by her lover, Patrick Fong, faces international intrigue, a hostile labor union, outrageous costs, and a greedy murderer who just won’t quit! Controversy surrounds the arrival of Treasury Secretary Raymond Gupta at the United Nations. Nothing’s easy in the Big Apple. Grace must coordinate all the arrangements and deal with the Secretary’s special assistant—Dr. Patrick Fong! Patrick is determined to protect his boss from assassination and ignore his love for Grace. She finds comfort in the arms of super-hot French guy Michael LeRoi. As the threats to Gupta escalate, Grace and her best pal Therese, inch closer to the truth and risk their own lives. Meanwhile, Grace realizes that one of her colleagues is responsible for an audacious fraud and blackmail scheme. Can she unmask the culprit before more lives are lost?

Audio Excerpt  From Marriage Penalty

MARRIAGE PENALTY

In 2009 MARRIAGE PENALTY was selected as a quarter finalist from among 10,000 competitors worldwide in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.

Everyone loves a wedding — unless it ends in murder. Grace Quinn and Patrick Fong watch in horror as their best friend is slain on his wedding day. Aided by forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Justin Fong, they hunt the villain who took his life. Grace suspects her former boss. With bereaved bride Therese Harding at her side, she pursues a tax protestor, the charismatic leader of an environmental group, and the scion of a wealthy family. Their adventures turn Washington D.C. on its side and bring the sleuths perilously close to an untimely end. Patrick and Grace face questions about their own future and the real implications of the Marriage Penalty.

Audio Excerpt  From Balance Sheet

BALANCE SHEET
Love hurts. When Patrick Fong is caught cheating, Grace Quinn needs some space. She flies to Houston to assist macho manager Bobby McEnroe with a tough problem. She’s on familiar turf: she first arrived there as a young bride and subsequently found her calling at work. Energy conglomerate SOLSUN is in big trouble. They owe millions to the IRS, and can’t seem to pay it. Accompanied by her former lover Charles Jackson and a host of Tax guys, Grace confronts the company elite. Her close friend Mary Alice Ward has a different problem. She’s a part-time realtor and call girl with very close ties to SOLSUN. When the CEO is poisoned, Mary Alice is arrested. Graces vows to exonerate her friend and find out what’s really happening at SOLSUN. The list of suspects includes Grace’s brutal ex-husband, a lipstick lesbian, and Bobby Mac himself. The Texas sized tempest brings Grace to the brink of disaster and to a new understanding with Patrick.

Audio Excerpt  From Legal Tender
LEGAL TENDER
Grace and Patrick Fong hit Boston’s Freedom trail! Grace is assigned to the Andover Service Center where a nasty scandal is brewing. Someone’s staging a phony refund scheme that’s costing the Treasury millions of dollars. Is it an IRS insider or a clever scam orchestrated by a former tax attorney? Meanwhile, Patrick Fong agrees to teach Asian politics at Harvard’s JFK School of government in order to keep an eye on his wife and pursue some other lines of inquiry. He and Grace settle down in the leafy Boston suburb of Andover with dogs in tow, trying to penetrate that legendary New England reserve and sort out their future plans.