The Hurt Machine, 7th in the "Moe Prager" ex-cop-turned-PI mystery/crime thriller series by award-winning author Reed Farrel Coleman, is free courtesy of Adams Media's Tyrus imprint.
Currently free @
Amazon UK, will likely drop in the
main store and probably show up elsewhere as well.
A
previously freebied book earlier on in the series that you may want to check your archives for is #6
Innocent Monster, offered in July of this year to Kindle and Sony-goers.
Description
At a pre-wedding party for his daughter Sarah, Moe Prager is approached by his ex-wife and former PI partner Carmella Melendez. It seems Carmella's estranged sister Alta has been murdered, but no one in New York City seems to care.
Why? Alta, a FDNY EMT, and her partner had months earlier refused to give assistance to a dying man at a fancy downtown eatery. Moe decides to help Carmella as a means to distract himself from his own life-and-death struggle. Making headway on the case is no mean feat as no one, including Alta's partner Maya Watson, wants to cooperate.
Moe chips away until he discovers a cancer roiling just below the surface, a cancer whose symptoms include bureaucratic greed, sexual harassment, and blackmail. But is any of it connected to Alta's brutal murder?