Storywright Books | Devil May Care

Devil May Care

Bookstore price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-9741462-2-5

“An old tree held back the stubby undergrowth. Nikki stepped off the area below the tree, measuring the bare space as six feet by ten. She knelt, put her hand beneath the floor of leaves, and pushed three fingers into the dirt. The soil gave way easily to her fingernails, until she hit something solid and round. Sweeping away loose earth and moldy bits of leaf, she uncovered a human skull hardly bigger than an orange. At the edge of the hole in the ground where she’d scooped out the soil, she saw another piece of white. Touching, she felt bone, and she knew from the shape she’d found the top of another small skull.”

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“. . . shows us that there is a lot of craziness out there, even in the heartland.” —Heartland Reviews	“Evans 'let his fiction-crafting mind go to work.” —Lawrence Journal World

Devil May Care
by Riley Evans

Devil May Care is an unholy crime story set in a small Kansas town. Nikki O’Keefe, a field agent for the Kansas State Police, discovers two ghastly crime scenes that put her into the path of The Reverend Jack Jackson, an evangelist and body-builder who promotes a gospel of perfect body and perfect soul.

The book is as much about Nikki’s frustrations as about the solving of the crimes. She’s tangled in romantic conflicts with two men, haunted by guilt about the damage her ambition has done to people she’s loved, and thwarted in her career by the sexist policies of her supervisors.

Revered Jack’s delusions bring another force into the book. His belief that he is one of God’s anointed clashes with his need for money and illicit sex. When he is forced to confront the disasters caused by his preaching and his transgressions, his disillusionment becomes deadly.

Click here to read Chapter One.