James M. Jackson writes the Seamus McCree series—financial thrillers featuring a forensic-finance sleuth who follows the money into secrets powerful people kill to protect. The series includes eight novels and two novellas.<br> <br>He also writes the Niki Undercover thrillers following Niki—yes, just Niki—from her FBI roots into deep-cover work where the wrong move is the last one. Readers of the McCree novels met her there first, before she stepped into a series of her own.<br> <br>Before turning to crime—the fictional kind—Jim spent thirty years as an actuary specializing in pension and post-retirement medical plans, which is to say he knows exactly how the numbers behind a human life can be made to add up in someone's favor. He's also the author of One Trick at a Time: How to Start Winning at Bridge (Master Point Press).<br> <br>Jim calls the deep woods of Michigan's Upper Peninsula home, where the nearest neighbor is more likely to be a wolf than a banker.<br> <br>Get a free Seamus McCree novella Low Tide at Tybee when you join his Readers Group at jamesmjackson.com.
