Preacher Finds a Corpse

The Evan Wycliff series has won a five awards, including an NYC Big Book Silver in Mystery for the sequel Preacher Fakes a Miracle, winning the top two awards in that competition in the same year.A lapsed divinity student who is fascinated by astrophysics finds his best friend shot dead in a cornfield. It looks like suicide. Having returned to his farm roots near Lake of the Ozarks, Evan works as a skip tracer for the local car dealer. He learns his friend was involved in a dispute over farmland ownership that goes back two centuries - complicated now by plans to make an old weapons facility a tourist attraction. First in a new Mystery-Thriller series."e;With its roots firmly grounded in an exceptional sense of place and purpose, Jones has created a murder mystery that lingers in the mind long after events have built to an unexpected crescendo. Murder mystery fans will find it more than a cut above the ordinary."e; - D. Donovan, Donovan's Bookshelf