Winner of 20+ book awards in 2020-24 including both Gold and Silver in the NYC Big Book Mystery category in the same year

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Preacher Stalls the Second Coming

#4 in the award-winning mystery series

MICK & MOIRA & BRAD

If you’re a fan of pop music and Hollywood lore…

PREACHER FINDS A CORPSE

 

The First Evan Wycliff Mystery

In the first Evan Wycliff mystery-thriller, 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.

Author Colleagues Praise the Preacher Evan Wycliff Series
 
This is literature masquerading as a mystery. Carefully yet powerfully, Gerald Jones creates a small, stunning world in a tiny midwestern town, infusing each character with not just life but wit, charm and occasionally menace. This is the kind of writing one expects from John Irving or Jane Smiley.
 
 – Marvin J. Wolf, author of the Rabbi Ben Mysteries, including A Scribe Dies in Brooklyn
 

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.

 

 – D. Donovan, Donovan’s Bookshelf

A smart, thoroughly entertaining, and suspenseful mystery novel, which is not so much a who-done-it as a how-and-why. Your characters are universally well-drawn and quirky, and the relationship you develop between Evan and Naomi is fresh and romantic. I loved it.

 

 – Roberta Edgar, co-author of The Perfect Play: The Day We Broke the Bank in Atlantic City

This is an excellent read from such an engaging storyteller! It really sucked me in. That last page did cause a triple-take, quadruple-take, and whatever comes after, up to about eight. Jones is definitely one of my favorite authors.

 

– John Rachel, author of Blinders Keepers and The Man Who Loved Too Much 

Gerald has the answers because he's already made all the mistakes himself.
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