There is another book in this same series by Micheal Lister on sale as part of the US Kindle Countdown deal program.
The Body and the Blood is the fourth in the John Jordan series, and it's $0.99 for about 3 more days before going up to $1.99 (which is still less than the "digital list price" of $3.49.
Lister's books appear free and/or discounted fairly often via Kindle Countdown or KDP Select, so if you like them, keep an eye out.
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http://www.amazon.com/Body-Blood-Jor.../dp/B006K66480
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It’s known as the Protective Management Unit. It’s a closed society within a closed society, housing Florida state inmates who wouldn’t survive in open population at Potter Correctional Institution. In it, John Jordan witnesses the most baffling crime of his career—a seemingly impossible murder he would swear could not have happened had he not seen it with his own eyes.
John has come to the PM unit because of a note he received announcing a murder would take place during the Catholic Mass. As he observes the priest offering up the body and the blood, an inmate enters the unit, walks over to his cell, and is locked inside alone. A little while later, John notices a pool of blood spreading out from beneath the cell door. The inmate is dead, his body and his blood separated from one another.
The inmate, a talented artist and quite possibly an innocent man, was sensitive and kind, just a few short days from parole. Who would want to kill him and why? Before John can answer these questions, he’s got to figure out how he was killed.
Suspects abound, including the Catholic Priest conducting the mass, the two PM officers, the victim’s sister, who visited him just prior to his death—something she hadn’t done in four years—and a handful of inmates, one of whom was the victim’s lover.
As the investigation proceeds, John uncovers crime after crime, and an openly racists family with plenty they aren’t open about. After taking a closer look at them, John’s best friend, Merrill Monroe, disappears.
Attempting to balance his fragile reconciliation with his ex-wife and the high-stakes investigation, John is soon overwhelmed and wonders if the life he’s hoped for is even possible. Just when he think’s he can’t take anymore, a second disappearance brings with it the demand for a dangerous prison break and a daring exchange. When John finally figures out how the crime was committed and who’s behind it, an exciting climax follows that reveals the shocking solution, sees someone close to John shot, and carries for John the ultimate personal price—one he’s not sure he can pay.
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Originally Posted by ATDrake
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.
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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.
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