James M. Jackson

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.

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.

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).

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.