When the Corn is Waist High
"Highly original...Ample dry humor leavens a plotline that thoughtfully explores the heart of human darkness...Michael Koryta admirers will be enthralled." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“What appears to be a humorous story set in Indiana farm country becomes a thriller with multiple shocking twists. Fans of TV's Dexter might want to try this disquieting book from Scott.” —Library Journal
In the early 1980s, a tight-knit Indiana community is struck by a series of violent murders. Father Solomon Lancaster―the town’s dry-witted sheriff and priest at the community Catholic church―finds himself on the forefront of the investigation. Soon, he’s fighting to match wits with the serial killer terrorizing his town while trying to justify his law enforcement credentials to the FBI as their analysts and profilers take Crooked Creek, Indiana, by storm.
But Father Solomon is hiding secrets of his own. Ones that threaten to rise to the surface as the murders continue and the investigation draws nearer to the truth. As the killer begins to escalate, Father Solomon finds that even the innocent have dark sides, and trust might be the deadliest weapon of all.
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Book details
- Author
- Jeremy Scott
- Imprint
- Keylight Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 294
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Fiction › Thrillers › Crime
Fiction › Mystery & Detective › Police Procedural
Fiction › Crime - Topics
- serial killer · small town · 1980s · police procedural · Indiana · priest and sheriff · crime thriller · murder investigation
- ISBN-13
- 9781684426461 (Paperback)9781684426478 (Hardcover)
About the author
JEREMY SCOTT is the narrator and co-creator of CinemaSins, a YouTube channel with more than 8 million subscribers built around the series "Everything Wrong With...," "Conversations With Myself About Movies," "Movie Recipes," and "What’s the Damage."
Scott earned a bachelor of arts in speech communications and co-created the CinemaSins brand with Chris Atkinson, whom he met in 1999 while both worked as managers at a movie theater.
When he’s not writing, Scott continues to develop the CinemaSins channel, whose motto—"No movie is without sin"—reflects the cinephilia he first developed during his college years.