I loved the cast that populated this book, they were unique and memorable. I really liked that Evan had personal conflict to deal with along with trying to solve the mystery of his friend's death. The pacing was a little uneven, but overall the story moved along decently. The setting was well described, and easy to imagine. A unique mystery that I enjoyed reading overall.

Brilliantly executed, Preacher Finds a Corpse has all of the elements to make this a great read.

The characters are well-crafted and the overall storyline is easy to follow. I absolutely adored this book.

I was very sure that this book would become one of my favorites, but the story didn't draw me in.

Recommend for mystery lovers.

This is a fun read following a guy called Evan who would have become a minister but has become disillusioned with God.On his return to his home town he finds the body of his boyhood friend. He has spent some time away studying.. His love-life has ground to a halt and he is recovering from a broken heart. Evan is drifting a bit but is now determined to find out what happened to his friend.
From this point on the book twists and turns and moves between being a possible murder who-done-it, to a thriller with chasing possible killers, to searching family history and several dead ends, misleading people who take Evan on a wild goose chase, to a legal plot with various implications for the main characters and a fair amount of personal angst and introspection along the way.

The people that should be sad about the death clearly are not. The will is in dispute. The means of death is in dispute. Evan has no one to trust and we follow him as he tries to unravel this mystery.

The author lays a scene very well and allows the reader inside the head of the protagonist. This means that the story is mostly seen from his point of view allowing the reader to try to solve the mystery.along with him. I found that the story changed momentum and focus several times which slowed the pace at times but was also quite effective in building tension. For instance there are scenes when Evan and his friend are back in their childhood and we are shown how their relationship develops. This means we begin to care more about the dead man. Similarly the focus moves away from the mystery at times to explain Evan's earlier relationship with a girlfriend. I felt this was handled well and helped flesh out the characters.

I think this book sits between a 'cosy' and a small-town type mystery, with plenty of sidelines along the way. It is quite literary in places and therefore isn't easily categorised into one genre or another - which I liked. . .

Here's an interesting story with very good characters, but as there's no suspense it gets rather boring.

Evan is a freelance Preacher. On a morning shoot he found the body of his friend Bob. Suicide thought the police. This is one man’s quest to find why his friends life had collapsed. Chase a secret will. Find who is friend or foe on his journey to the truth.
I was given an ARC of this book by Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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.)
This is an excellent read! The Author wrote "Choke Hold".
This book..."Preacher Finds a Corpse" is a Mystery Novel. Bob Taggart’s apparent suicide effects many people. It was easy to connect with Evan and the people effective with Bob Taggart's death. I should never read a writer back to back and get the stories confused. This is a brilliant book and one you ask why.