As her sequel to Taxed to Death, former criminology student Debra Purdy Kong of Port Moody has a second novel featuring a Revenue Canada Agency auditor, Alex Bellamy. Eighteen months after getting fired from the RCA, Bellamy reappears in Fatal Encryption dressed as Kermit the Frog on Hallowe'en night, wondering where his life went wrong.

In need of cash, Alex agrees to help catch a computer prankster at McKinley's Department Store, but things turn serious when someone vows to permanently encrypt the store's data and torch the building unless ten million dollars is handed over in two weeks. Along the way Alex gets implicated in a murder. He knows there's a connection between the murder and the extortion threat, yet time's running out. People are questioning his competency; a killer is threatening his life. 9780969921110

[BCBW 2008]