Free from the author via KDP Select @
Amazon:
Flesh and Blood by Michael Lister (
SYKM), a short story collection and 3rd book in his John Jordan Mysteries starring a Florida prison chaplain, originally out from small press Pottersville in 2006. We've previously received
two of his Adams Media books as official publisher promo freebies some years ago if you're in the mood for more Florida-set crime fiction, and another John Jordan book was a KDP freebie a few years ago which you might have picked up then as well.
NB: the Publisher's Weekly review says that some of the stories are more faith-exploring parables than mysteries and thus may have more appeal for a Christian-oriented audience. YMMV.
John Jordan is back—investigating eternal mysteries woven into the fabric of everyday life. Within the confines of seemingly ordinary cases, John explores the ineffable and inexplicable, the profoundly mysterious within the mundane.
In this diverse collection of cases, John investigates the Shroud of Turin, a pregnant virgin, a daring prison break, a Hurricane Katrina orphan who might just be the Second Coming, a desperate woman who sleeps with one too many men, a bloody body on the rec yard, a mystery that turns on a single observation, and a murder in which John himself is the prime suspect—all this as he deals with depression and battles alcoholism.
These stories are puzzles, whodunits, and enigmas, but they are much more. John Jordan doesn't just solve crime, he investigates the hidden heart of humanity and the mysterious world in which we live. Here are temporal answers and eternal questions, and at the center of it all, a conflicted man of faith and doubt, flawed, but faithful, who ministers mercy even as he thirsts for justice.