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April 17, 2024
Chapters 31-32: Preacher Finds a Corpse - Bonus Audiobook Episode GP718
Here’s the next post in the weekday releases of the 24 episodes in the Preacher Finds a Corpse audiobook.
Episode GP719 will be posted Thursday morning at 8am Eastern / 5am Pacific and the other episodes each weekday thereafter.
May you find the novel intriguing and compelling, and please don’t hesitate to leave your impressions in the Comments section of the posts.
Episode GP718 DescriptionGP718 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Chapters 31 and 32 (33:52 minutes)Accused of breaking into the pharmacy to steal drugs, Evan is heavily sedated and held at the clinic, a drug rehabilitation center.
Chapter 31
Tuesday – Wednesday
Myerson Clinic
Evan slept on and off for what seemed a long time. He hadn’t realized how tired he was. Staying awake to fend off some pharmaceutical attack was pointless. He craved the injections because they were painkillers. The opaque curtains in his room were drawn and the interior lights dimmed. So he had no sense of whether it was day or night, or days or nights. Sometimes he’d look up and see Naomi sitting there patiently. But she didn’t say anything. Nurses and attendants would come and go. They didn’t say anything either. Or if they did, he didn’t remember.
* * *
The drugs they gave him did more than sap his energy. They made him extraordinarily sensitive to light, to noise, and to the maelstrom of images racing through his tormented, post-traumatic brain.
Outside, the raging storm which had begun when Evan was down in the cellar continued unabated. The driving blizzard winds whirled and whined. Evan’s hospital room was insulated from outside temperatures but not from those woeful sounds. In his dimmed mental state, as he drifted in and out of consciousness, the fury outside inspired and magnified his inner visions.
It wasn’t a dream because it made too much sense. Perhaps it was a semiconscious vision induced by his delirium, because Evan remembered it afterward in vivid, color-saturated detail. It began with a pleasant, realistic memory and ended with an overwhelming, surreal horror.
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TT018 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Audiobook
Accused of breaking into the pharmacy to steal drugs, Evan is heavily sedated and held at the clinic, a drug rehabilitation center.
April 16, 2024
Chapters 28-30: Preacher Finds a Corpse - Bonus Audiobook Episode GP717
Here’s the next post in the weekday releases of the 24 episodes in the Preacher Finds a Corpse audiobook.
Episode GP718 will be posted Wednesday morning at 8am Eastern / 5am Pacific and the other episodes each weekday thereafter.
May you find the novel intriguing and compelling, and please don’t hesitate to leave your impressions in the Comments section of the posts.
Episode GP717 DescriptionGP717 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Chapters 28, 29, and 30 43:42 minutesIn the midst of a blizzard, Evan searches for the missing document in Bob's secret hiding place in the cellar of the pharmacy. Evan ends up with nothing and confined to a hospital bed.
Chapter 28
Sunday 10 PM
Taggart’s Pharmacy
In the short time Evan had been with the sheriff, snow had accumulated on the Mustang. Evan scolded himself for leaving his ice scraper in the trunk of the Taurus. He didn’t want to wait around for the car’s defrosters to melt the snow, so he got in and started the engine for the warmup, then got out and brushed the snow off the windshield with the sleeve of his coat.
He jumped in the car and drove through the thick downfall to Taggart’s Pharmacy, which was only four blocks away on U.S. 52. Bob still owned the building and the business. He had recently hired another in an inconsistent series of druggists, young Phil Vanderhorn. That store and the C’mon Inn were the only businesses open late on a Sunday night in AC. Other than the rare medical emergency, on the weekends Vanderhorn sold painkillers for hangovers and condoms for wishful party animals.
Naomi was in the passenger seat. She framed it as a question, but she knew the answer: “It’s not a joke, is it?”
“Oh, it’s a joke,” Evan told her. “But it’s also an instruction. Bob is still giving me orders.”
“Do you think Otis bought your story?”
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TT017 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Audiobook
In the midst of a blizzard, Evan searches for the missing document in Bob's secret hiding place in the cellar of the pharmacy. Evan ends up with nothing and confined to a hospital bed.
April 15, 2024
Chapters 25-27: Preacher Finds a Corpse - Bonus Audiobook Episode GP716
Here’s the next post in the weekday releases of the 24 episodes in the Preacher Finds a Corpse audiobook.
Episode GP717 will be posted Tuesday morning at 8am Eastern / 5am Pacific and the other episodes each weekday thereafter.
May you find the novel intriguing and compelling, and please don’t hesitate to leave your impressions in the Comments section of the posts.
Episode GP716 DescriptionGP716 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Chapters 25, 26, and 27 (39:20 minutes)Lt. Briana Caspar, the debtor on the car loan, tells Evan why she suspects the Army wants the Emmett farmland. On the drive back, Evan recaps with Naomi, then heads for the sheriff's office, where he finds out Otis has been withholding a key piece of evidence
Chapter 25
Sunday Afternoon
With Lt. Briana Caspar
Evan’s not stopping to grab a sandwich before he hit the highway was powerful testimony to his sense of urgency.
The outside temperature was still in the forties with partly cloudy skies and not much of a wind. Spotting the metallic-orange Mustang with the fancy wheels was all too easy. Even though Evan hoped Briana had better things to do, he found her in her carport, bundled up against the cold, hosing the salt off the sides of her muscle car.
He stopped his Taurus in front of the Mustang. Because the carport had a rear wall, Evan’s maneuver effectively blocked Briana from making a hasty exit.
As he got out, he called to her, “Would you be Briana?”
She recognized him right away. “Why, you’re the preacher!”
“Yes,” he admitted, surprised, as he touched the bill of his ball cap. “But my day job is I work for Zed Motors.”
She didn’t panic. She shut off the hose and actually laughed. “How do you come to be doing Satan’s work on a Sunday?”
“Mr. Zed is hardly Satan, Ms. Caspar. Just a businessman who wants to keep his customers, and keep them happy.”
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TT016 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Audiobook
Lt. Briana Caspar, the debtor on the car loan, tells Evan why she suspects the Army wants the Emmett farmland. On the drive back, Evan recaps with Naomi, then heads for the sheriff's office, where he finds out Otis has been withholding a key piece of evidence.
April 14, 2024
This Week's Audiobook Episodes GP716- GP720
If you’re a paid subscriber to Thinking About Thinking, you may find it’s more convenient to listen to our audiobook episodes on your favorite podcast app - including Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Spotify, and any app that can use our RSS feed. To access releases via your app, go to the Podcast tab on this site and then click the app you want to use from the icons shown on the right of the episode listings:
You can continue to get the episodes of this book from the Bonus Audiobook Episodes tab if you wish. Going forward, other audiobooks will likely be released as Podcasts. But you won’t need an app - just click the Podcast tab and select the episode you want to hear.
Here’s a list of the next five weekday releases of the 24 episodes in the Preacher Finds a Corpse audiobook.
New episodes will be posted each weekday morning at 8 am Eastern / 5 am Pacific until all 24 episodes in the book have been released.
May you find the novel intriguing and compelling, and please don’t hesitate to leave your impressions in the Comments section of the posts.
Monday, April 15GP716 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Episode 16 - Chapters 25, 26, and 27 (39:20 minutes)Tuesday, April 16GP717 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Episode 17 - Chapters 28, 29 and 30 (43:42 minutes)Lt. Briana Caspar, the debtor on the car loan, tells Evan why she suspects the Army wants the Emmett farmland. On the drive back, Evan recaps with Naomi, then heads for the sheriff's office, where he finds out Otis has been withholding a key piece of evidence
Wednesday, April 17GP718 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Episode 18 - Chapters 31 and 32 (33:52 minutes)In the midst of a blizzard, Evan searches for the missing document in Bob's secret hiding place in the cellar of the pharmacy. Evan ends up with nothing and confined to a hospital bed.
Thursday, April 18GP719 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Episode 19 - Chapters 33 and 34 (26:40 minutes)Accused of breaking into the pharmacy to steal drugs, Evan is heavily sedated and held at the clinic, a drug rehabilitation center.
Friday, April 19GP720 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Episode 20 - Chapters 35, 36 and 37 (25:41 minutes)A seemingly angelic intervention gets Evan out of the clinic, assisted by Zip, who loans him a car and says he won't be responsible for what happens next. Rather than running back to the sheriff, Evan decides he'd better hide out for a while.
Evan recovers in a broken-down motor lodge and gets help from an unexpected ally and Arthur Redwine. Bob's last-minute plan to save the Emmett farm becomes clear.
There are four novels in the Preacher Evan Wycliff mystery series. We’ve produced the first one as an audiobook. Your support here will help us to record more!
April 12, 2024
TT015 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Audiobook
Evan fears he's a fraud pretending to be a counselor, may not be helping at all. In church on Sunday, he tells the congregation why Bob should have wanted to go on living. Zip confronts him and shows an odd curiosity about the investigation. On the way to collect on a car loan, Evan seeks Naomi's advice about next steps.
TT014 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Audiobook
On a visit to Redwine, Evan learns the Army has a longstanding claim to the Emmett place.
TT013 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Audiobook
Evan goes to see his old mentor Rev. Thurston, who won't let him off the hook.
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