Publisher, Timberwolf Press (July 2000)

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"Calculated Risk offers a take-charge professional woman, an intriguing cast of supporting characters and a multi-faceted mystery. A definite winner for author Denise Tiller and her readers." --Trish Macdonald Skillman, author of Writing the Thriller, Writer's Digest Books, 2000

Calculated Risk AWARDS:
1999 CNW/FFWA Florida State Novel Chapter and Best in Fiction Divisions
First place in the 1999 Greater Dallas Writers Association Mystery Division
1999 Betty Heinrichs Award for Most Publishable Mystery
1999 Millard Lampell Award for Most Publishable Mystery

Newport Beach, California actuary Liz Matthews discovers counting dead people for a living can be murder when the bodies start multiplying.

Liz builds her life around things she can count on: numbers, her father, and her cop boyfriend Jack. Order is disrupted when she literally stumbles upon the latest victim in a string of brutal rapes.

As she helps and befriends the rape victim, order continues to unravel when she receives a shocking phone call from her mom. The mother she'd told everyone was dead. Not only that, Mom wants Liz to find Liz's half-sister. Trouble is, Liz didn't know she had a half-sister.

But first, Liz finds a freshly dead body, then uncovers a twenty-year-old murder. A Mardi Gras mask connects the serial rapist, her missing sister and the murders. Armed with a black belt in mathematics, she uses intuitive and analytic skills to unearth a trail of blackmail and betrayal. Meanwhile her relationship with Jack splinters and even more bodies turn up that need counting.

About the author: Denise Tiller is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and worked in Newport Beach for several years. Her actuarial textbook, Life, Health, and Annuity Reinsurance is the industry standard tome. It’s on the Society's exam syllabus and is going into a second printing. Denise is president of the unpublished writers' section of Sisters in Crime. She also belongs to the Mystery Writers of America and to a professionally-led writing critique group.