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I highly recommend Debbi Mack's Identity Crisis concerning a lawyer, Samantha "Sam" McRae who gets mixed up helping a client suspected of stealing from the bank she works for ... that quickly turns into murder. Sam works on her own but finds a couple of sympathetic friends along the way ... and has a couple of mafia encounters she'd rather not repeat. Vulnerable but tough, Sam's sleuthyness gets her into and out of trouble as she pieces together clues that reveal a much bigger story than her client's original challenges. Avaialble at Kobo, Kindle and Smashwords for abt $3.
Back to classic fiction: Agatha Christie's first Poirot, The Mysterious Affair at Styles was the perfect thing to shake off the summer thunder showers. Set at the end of WWI, we meet Hastings and Poirot for the first time, solving the locked room murder of Hasting's friend's step-mother, Emily Cavendish. As happen in so many later novels, Poirot gathers the suspects near the end to reveal the murderer. Later tales refine Poirot's mannerisms, but much is already in place. This work is PD and can be found in an excellent edition here on Mobileread.
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