Gerald Everett Jones – Author

2020 NYC Big Book Distinguished Favorite in Mystery

Amateur sleuth Evan Wycliff is a disillusioned divinity student who is fascinated by astrophysics. He's found the answers he seeks nowhere. He's dropped out of school and returned to his small-town farm roots in Southern Missouri. He’s also disappointed in love. His beautiful fiancé was a brilliant Jewish scientist, a defense contractor who was killed in a rocket attack in Syria.

These days Evan gets guest preacher gigs and uses his investigative skills as skip tracer for the local car and tractor dealership. In this second novel in the series, Evan counsels a boy who is afflicted with schizophrenia and has been accused of rape. Along with related abuses of the child welfare system, he uncovers a teen trafficking ring run out of a luxury casino resort by a Russian oligarch.

Third in the multiple-award-winning Evan Wycliff Mystery series.
Guest preacher and part-time investigator Evan Wycliff reluctantly takes on the role of full-time minister and walks straight into more responsibility and trouble than he can handle. He attends to near-death experience, late-stage dementia, long-term coma, and consequences of the pandemic. His old nemesis investment banker Stuart Shackleton is back — and claims to be converted! Shackleton's money sustains a critical-care medical breakthrough, the building of a new church, and a career boost for Evan as a celebrity evangelist.

Original research and analysis on the history behind the Bible story by Don E. Jones. With an Afterword and commentary by Gerald Everett Jones.