Preacher Finds a Corpse

Print edition won 2020 Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorite and Eric Hoffer Award Finalist in MysteryA 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.