About the Author
Meg Macallan
Forensic crime fiction built on real financial mechanics. Follow Lex Vaughn as she reconciles wire transfers, motive, and murder from a cabin in the mountains—one fair-play whodunit at a time.
The pen behind the name
Meg Macallan
Meg Macallan is the pen name of a forensic accountant. She spent eleven years in fraud auditing before leaving the firm without a forwarding address. She writes from a snowbound A-frame in the Rockies, with Ledger the half-wolf at her feet and Debit the cat on the desk where the manuscript is supposed to be.
The thrillers draw from public case documents—wire transfer mechanics, beneficial ownership concealment, jurisdiction shopping—not invented thriller-isms. The juxtaposition is the point.
Her debut, The Widow's Going Concern, publishes June 15, 2027.
On the Work
Money. Motive. Murder.
The Adverse Anomaly series follows Lex Vaughn, a former IRS agent turned private forensic investigator, working from a cabin in the mountains. Each book is a fair-play whodunit. The clues are in the documents: related-party transactions, a reconciliation that will not tie out, an audit opinion signed too quickly.
- Genre: Financial crime thriller / Forensic noir
- Setting: An A-frame cabin in the mountains
- Series: The Adverse Anomaly
The forensic investigator who followed the money into the dark.
The Adverse Anomaly · Book One
The Widow's Going Concern
A debut thriller about beneficial ownership concealment, the audit that wouldn't close, and the woman who walked away from the firm before they could ask why.
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