Preacher Finds a Corpse

Print edition won 2020 Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorite and Eric Hoffer Award Finalist in Mystery A lapsed divinity student who is fascinated by astrophysics finds his best friend has shot himself in a cornfield, but it might not be suicide. Having returned to his farm roots near Lake of the Ozarks, Evan works as a skip tracer for the local car dealer. He finds his friend was involved in dispute over farmland ownership that goes back two centuries - complicated now by plans to make an old Army facility a tourist attraction.