The Cost of Survival

A Blue Bridge Mystery

By: Michael K. Zimmerli

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

How far would you go to win your father’s fortune—especially if it meant your brothers had to die first?

When a bitter patriarch pits his three sons against each other in a deadly contest for his inheritance, two want no part of it. The third, however, already has blood on his hands—and no problem adding more.

All private investigator Jimmy Favreaux wanted was a quiet vacation in the northern Minnesota woods, but the past has other plans. No sooner has he unpacked than the phone rings—and the voice on the other end stops him cold.

“They said they found Jacob’s body in the lake, but… that’s not where I left him.”

The caller is Marsha Little, a name Jimmy hasn’t heard in years. What starts as a suspicious death quickly unravels into a tangled web of long-held grudges, buried secrets, and a family feud that was always destined to end in violence.

With help from his partner Wendi and an old friend—retired attorney Vandy—Jimmy must peel back the layers of a twisted legacy. But in this town, where everyone’s hiding something, the truth may come at a deadly price.

The Cost of Survival is the fifth installment in The Blue Bridge Mysteries—a gripping small-town noir where loyalty, greed, and justice collide in the most unexpected ways.