The Deposit Slip

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By Todd M. Johnson ’75

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(Bethany House) When Erin Larson cleans out her recently deceased father’s safety-deposit box, she finds a deposit slip for $10.3 million dollars dated about three years ago among the photos and papers. The bank says it has no record of the funds, and Erin hires lawyer Jared Neaton to help her get to the truth. Johnson is a trial lawyer and an adjunct professor of international law, and served as a U.S. diplomat in Hong Kong. This novel was inspired by a real case from the 1990s in which a deposit slip was discovered after a farmer in rural Minnesota died.

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