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March 28, 2024
Chapter 7: Preacher Finds a Corpse - Bonus Audiobook Episode GP704
Here’s the next post in the weekday releases of the 24 episodes in the Preacher Finds a Corpse audiobook.
Episode GP705 will be posted Friday morning at 8am Eastern / 5am Pacific and the other episodes each weekday thereafter.
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Episode GP704 DescriptionGP704 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Chapter 7 (26:22 minutes)Evan remembers high times with Bob when they were boys on the farm. They'd argued recently. Was that what drove Bob to shoot himself?
Chapter 7
Wednesday 1:30 pm
With Evan
Evan had to skip lunch, a choice he rarely made. But he’d promised to return to Edie before she had to leave the house.
On the drive over, a few brief calls took care of some of the essential arrangements. Hill and Sons Mortuary. The office secretary at First Baptist. The two newspapers. He tried not to worry he was tempting fate by driving on icy roads as he juggled his phone.
For a guy who just wanted to let go, I’m up to my neck in responsibility.
Immediate pressing matters aside, Evan’s thoughts returned to how he might have chosen a different path. He was beginning to suspect his returning here from Boston would prove to be a huge mistake, maybe even the onset of another blue period. Shrinks call it depression. Theologians call it the long, dark night of the soul. Crises of both faith and mortality had blown him back to his roots in the black dirt, but he’d assumed those storms were over. Now here was the jolt of another devastating loss, and he feared what was left of his faith couldn’t withstand the hit.
How can I help anyone else when my own life is such a mess?
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March 27, 2024
Guest Podcast: When does Anxiety = Love?
No one can say where a book comes from, least of all the person who writes it. Books are born out of ignorance, and if they go on after they are written, it’s only to the degree that they cannot be understood. - Paul Auster, Leviathan
Here is the MP3 audio version of my previously posted interview with Randi Bowslaugh
Guest Podcast: Write or Die! Show with Randi BowslaughYou worry, fret, and fuss about the people closest to you. Unless you’re totally unhinged, you won’t be scolding people on the street.
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Preacher Finds a Corpse - 41 chapters in 24 half-hour episodes released here on Thinking About Thinking. Coffee-break short!
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Chapters 4-6: Preacher Finds a Corpse - Bonus Audiobook Episode GP703
Here’s the next post in the weekday releases of the 24 episodes in the Preacher Finds a Corpse audiobook.
Episode GP704 will be posted Thursday morning at 8am Eastern / 5am Pacific and the other episodes each weekday thereafter.
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Episode GP703 DescriptionGP703 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Chapters 4, 5 and 6 (28:37 minutes)Stu Shackleton gets a lesson in home defense from Deputy Griggs. Evan reflects on why he didn't become an ordained minister. Evan meets with Sheriff Otis and begins his unofficial investigation.
Chapter 4
Wednesday 11 am
El Dorado Springs
Stuart Shackleton was so nervous he willed his hands not to shake — and so angry he could strangle a puppy. He felt a cold sweat trickle down his right arm into his palm, and he worried the moisture would compromise his tight grip on his weapon.
By God, no one was going to threaten him and get away with it. Ever!
It all happened in less than two heartbeats. He heard a noise, a single footfall. He again scanned the dimly lit room, his head turning with a mechanical slowness from right to left. And just as his focus rested momentarily on the bay window to the south, he caught a blur at the edge of his peripheral vision against the north wall, on his right. His eyes flitted over there, ahead of his neck turn. As his right arm raised his Sig Sauer to join the palm of his left, he took a half-step in that direction to ensure his stance was wide and solid.
The blur was a head and then a torso. From a hiding place behind a wine-colored, leather-covered divan, the dark intruder jumped to his feet. His face was hidden in shadow, so it was impossible to tell whether he was black or white or some shade in between.
The creep’s right arm was also in motion!
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March 26, 2024
Preacher Finds a Corpse - Bonus Audiobook Episode 2
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Here’s the next post in the weekday releases of the 24 episodes in the Preacher Finds a Corpse audiobook.
Episode 3 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 2 DescriptionGP702 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Chapter 3 (36:03 minutes)Evan confronts Bob's widow Edie. She doesn't appear sorrowful, but she asks him to handle the arrangements.
Chapter 3
Wednesday 7 am
Taggart House
With rustic fieldstone-and-redwood exterior, the house was a handsome three-bedroom rambling ranch, having been custom-built to Bob’s specification on the shore of a small lake less than a decade ago. Evan had visited a few times since he’d been back. Oddly out of keeping with the home’s Western design, its carefully selected furnishings were colonial and expensive, although factory-milled. Drexel Heritage or Ethan Allen. Edie had moved in just three years ago, and Evan guessed she’d given all the first wife’s stuff to charity and redone the place to her conservative tastes. Maybe then she could sit in the parlor and imagine she and her husband were in a grander New England gray-stone mansion in a swanky old-line neighborhood like Swope Park in KC. But Bob wouldn’t have cared whether his chairs were covered in chenille or canvas.
Brownie did not greet Evan at the door, which was her habit. The preacher came in through the side entry to the kitchen, which was unlocked. The kitchen looked newly renovated, complete with high-end, stainless-steel appliances.
As Evan walked in on Edith Taggart, she was dressed in an oriental-print housecoat with fuzzy pink slippers. Her hair was in rollers, and she hadn’t finished putting her face on yet. She didn’t seem the least bit drowsy, and there were no streaks of residual mascara on her cheeks where they might have been wet from crying.
Why the rollers? Where’s she planning on going? Or does she just do it out of habit?
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March 25, 2024
Bonus Audiobook Episode 1
This post begins weekday releases of the 24 episodes in the Preacher Finds a Corpse audiobook.
Episode 2 will be posted tomorrow morning at 8 am Eastern / 5 am 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 1 DescriptionThe rest of the book text and the audiobook player are behind the paywall.
GP701 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Episode 1 - Chapters 1 and 2 (21:53 minutes)Evan finds his friend's body and suspects it's not suicide. The cops want to know what he was doing there. Josh and Linda Emmett get a notice their farmhouse will be bulldozed.
Chapter 1
Wednesday Dawn
Emmett’s Pasture
Preacher Evan Wycliff found his friend Bob Taggart’s body in the early light, about a half-hour after dawn, on the frigid morning of February 29. The light snow from last week had all but disappeared in a brief thaw, leaving a frozen crust on the loamy farmland. The wind was brisk, with a bite. It was a bright day to be glad the roads were safe, salted, and dry. There was no good reason for anyone to get hurt today.
Evan had been on his way to a turkey shoot. But he didn’t have a gun and he had no intention of borrowing one. He was going to sit with his friends in the woods, learn how to blow silly, warbling sounds on a reed-whistle turkey call, take greedy gulps of strong coffee laced with whiskey, and — most important in his role as compassionate counselor — make a mighty effort to make sure his friends didn’t get so drunk they’d shoot each other accidentally. The others liked him because he told good stories and because he’d laugh at theirs even when they knew their jokes were lame.
Now it had all suddenly gone bad. If only the dreadful event having occurred in a leap year would mean he’d have fewer times to acknowledge its anniversary. The mathematical side of his brain worked that way.
Evan had an analytical mind, which, despite his efforts to the contrary, had drawn him away from his studies of theology and into science. Unanswered questions, whether metaphysical or worldly, would get stuck in his head and plague his thoughts.
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March 24, 2024
This Week's Audiobook Episodes GP701-GP705
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, March, 25GP701 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Episode GP705 - Chapters 1 and 2 (21:54 minutes)Tuesday, March, 26GP702 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Episode GP702 - Chapter 3 (36:03 minutes)Evan finds his friend's body and suspects it's not suicide. The cops want to know what he was doing there. Josh and Linda Emmett get a notice their farmhouse will be bulldozed.
Wednesday, March, 27GP703 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Episode GP703 - Chapters 4, 5, and 6 (28:37 minutes)Evan confronts Bob's widow Edie. She doesn't appear sorrowful, but she asks him to handle the arrangements.
Thursday, March, 28GP704 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Episode GP704 - Chapter 7 (26:22 minutes)Stu Shackleton gets a lesson in home defense from Deputy Griggs. Evan reflects on why he didn't become an ordained minister. Evan meets with Sheriff Otis and begins his unofficial investigation.
Friday, March, 29GP705 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Episode GP705 - Chapter 8 (26:15 minutes)Evan remembers high times with Bob when they were boys on the farm. They'd argued recently. Was that what drove Bob to shoot himself?
Evan argues with Edie, who nevertheless lets him go through Bob's personal things to find evidence.
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!
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Part-time minister and reluctant investigator Evan Wycliff chases down problems most people in this farmland community would rather ignore. In every case, it comes down to…
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Beginning Monday, March 25In the fourth book in the series, a crazed scientist knocks on Evan’s door with a bizarre warning - the Deep State may be planning to fake the Second Coming of Christ with advanced virtual-reality technology. Meanwhile, a faith-healing evangelist is luring poor and homeless people to a religious retreat with promises of ample food, then exhorting them to prepare for the End Times by starving themselves to death. Evan can’t ignore these unbelievable stories when a young woman from his church disappears inside the cult leader’s farm.
On each weekday morning at 8 am Eastern Time / 5 am Pacific, we’ll be releasing an audiobook episode of Preacher Finds a Corpse.
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March 21, 2024
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Preacher Finds a Corpse - 41 chapters in 24 half-hour episodes released here on Thinking About Thinking. Coffee-break short!
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March 20, 2024
New for Paid Subscribers - Audiobook Episodes
On each weekday morning at 10 am Eastern Time / 7 am Pacific, we’ll be releasing an audiobook episode of Preacher Finds a Corpse.
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Whenever you want to binge, you’ll find previously released episodes on the Bonus Audiobook Episodes tab of this Thinking About Thinking blog.
About the BookA 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 into a tourist attraction. First in the multiple-award-winning mystery series.
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March 17, 2024
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