"Never trust a cop. That is my number one rule." "Didn't you used to be a cop?" I asked "Damn right. Best there was. I conned a lot of idiots into trusting me and every one of them regretted it." Gil DiMauro is the best Insurance Investigator there is. He is also the least motivated. He doesn't care if his company loses thousands in bogus insurance claims. He doesn't even care that his boss thinks he's an idiot. The only thing he really cares about escaping Hartford, Connecticut (not to mention his never-say-ex girlfriend) and returning to his home town of San Francisco. He becomes more motivated when a coworker is murdered and Gil becomes the prime suspect. He swears he never even met the dead woman but the police say otherwise. His investigation leads him to a conspiracy right under his nose, a conspiracy where insurance fraud and murder are just the tip of the iceberg. Fraudsters was a finalist for both the St. Martin's Press Malice Domestic Competition and the Private Eye Writers of America's Best Private Eye Novel Competition. Although Fraudsters is a work of fiction, all the scams described in the book are real.