The Sketching Detective and the Bitcoin Murders

About the Book

Upon arriving at his university office one morning, Jack MacKay finds the body of a former boyfriend of his wife, Fiona, lying on his desk with a bullet hole in his back. The murdered man was Billy Bell, the owner of the Bell Bond Company and a former professional football player. Eventually, Jack and Fiona overcame the police’s suspicion that Jack was involved in the murder. They learn that the computer theft of bitcoins is in some way involved in the death. Together with Billy’s wife, who is nicknamed Hercules because of her great physical strength, they eventually stumble across the unlikely killer.

About the Author

Jack McCormac, a native of South Carolina, is an emeritus professor of civil engineering at Clemson University. He is the author of a number of well-known civil engineering textbooks. These texts have been used at over five hundred universities around the world and have been translated into quite a few languages. Engineering News Record, working in collaboration with the engineering and architectural societies of the United States and Europe, selected Jack for their list of the 125 greatest engineers and architects in the world during the last 125 years. The Sketching Detective and the Bitcoin Murders is the sixth book in this series.