We're always on the lookout for new mystery, suspense and thriller books, and with this series of recurring posts, we're looking at Indie Mysteries, books published by small, independent publishers, or self-published, that recently caught our eye ... and may be of interest to you too. Most of these titles, selected primarily from the Smashwords website, are ebook only, though some may be available in a print format.
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In the Blood
by Steve Robinson
Non-Series
Self Published (Ebook)
July 2011
Family history was never supposed to be like this …
When American genealogist, Jefferson Tayte, accepted his latest assignment, he had no idea it might kill him. But while murder was never part of the curriculum, Tayte is kidding himself if he thinks he can walk away from this one.
Driven by the all-consuming irony of being a genealogist who doesn’t even know who his own parents are, Tayte soon finds that the assignment shares a stark similarity to his own struggle. Someone has gone to great lengths to erase an entire family bloodline from recorded history and he’s not going home until he’s found out why. After all, if he’s not good enough to find this family, how can he ever expect to be good enough to someday find his own?
Set in Cornwall, England, past and present, Tayte's research centres around the tragic life of a young Cornish girl, a writing box, and the discovery of a dark family secret that he believes will lead him to the family he is looking for. Trouble is, someone else is looking for the same answers and they will stop at nothing to find them.
Also available in a Kindle edition.
The Devil's Bait
by Jeff Mariotte
Non-Series
Self Published (Ebook)
July 2011
Jessie Dawn Cutler is a rising star in the high-stakes banking world, as a relationship banker—someone who manages the accounts of the wealthiest clients. When her favorite customer turns out to be crooked and Jessie witnesses a savage crime, it'll take every resource she has—and the unlikeliest allies of all—to keep her alive.
Also available in a Kindle edition.
Hot Ashes Cold Granite
by Larry LaVoie
A Chad Beckman Mystery
3rd in series
Self Published (Ebook)
July 2011
Bay View Mayor Chad Beckman is drawn into the secrets of Bay View’s past when Blake Roberts’ parents suddenly die leaving Blake the family mortuary and its secrets that have been dead and buried for many years. Chad helps his distraught friend sort through his parent’s possessions and the two find themselves in the basement of the funeral home where the crematorium is running on overtime burning the funeral home records. They discover the mortuary holds hidden secrets and too many bodies for the graves in the cemetery.
The mystery deepens when Chad and Blake are drawn back to a crypt in the shape of an obelisk that dominates the horizon of the graveyard and discover the killer has hidden secrets buried there.
Chad and Blake are drawn ever deeper into the graveyard’s secrets and Chad’s daughter shows up on his doorstep running away from her own secrets. Now those close to them are in danger of becoming hot ashes or being buried alive under the cold granite headstones of the cemetery.
Also available in a Kindle edition.
The Blood of Saints
by Keith Spence
Non-Series
The Fiction Works (Ebook)
July 2011
Two men dead, one a respected investigative journalist, the other a member of the White House legal staff. Both deaths are quickly pronounced suicides, but FBI special agent Mike Saville and US Park Police Sergeant Lowri Pritchard aren't so sure. Seems there are a few too many "coincidences" that link the dead men together.
As the two investigations merge in the Nation's Capital, and the bodies and conspiracy theories pile up like DC traffic, Saville and Pritchard will soon discover that the truth is more shocking than anything they could have ever imagined.
The Blood of Saints was originally published in trade paperback by Shadow Line Press in June, 2009.
Also available in a Kindle edition.
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For more recently published Indie Mysteries, visit the Smashwords Mystery and Detective category page or the Thriller and Suspense category page.
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