Where the Corn Meets the Sky: A Novel By Gideon Witlock
 
Book One in The Crossroads Mysteries.
 
The prairie keeps its secrets buried deep.
But on a cold October morning in Harrow Falls, Illinois, one of them has just surfaced — face up, in a grain elevator, with a strange symbol drawn on his wrist.
 
The Story
Soledad Reyes-Okonkwo came to Harrow Falls to start over. A former Chicago Tribune crime reporter with a complicated past, she now runs a coffee-and-herb shop on Main Street — quiet work, quiet life, quiet town. She had every intention of staying out of trouble.
 
Then she sees the police lights. She crosses the road before she can stop herself. Old instincts. Old skills. And a dead man who, the more she learns about him, seems to have made enemies on at least three continents.
 
What begins as a single murder in a small Illinois county slowly opens into something vast — a mystery stretching from the American heartland to the Vatican to West Africa, tangled up in history that goes back centuries and grievances that have never been settled. The deeper Soledad digs, the more she realizes: this isn't just about who killed one man. It's about what he was looking for. What others want stopped. And who has been quietly, patiently waiting for exactly this moment.
 
Some secrets aren't buried because people forgot about them. Some secrets are buried because someone made sure they stayed that way.
 
Why You'll Love It
Where the Corn Meets the Sky is the rare mystery that grips you by the first page and leaves you thinking long after the last. Author Gideon Witlock has built a world that feels completely real — a small Midwestern town with layers most people never see, populated by characters you'll be rooting for, worrying about, and wanting to spend five more books with.
 
At the center of it all is Soledad: sharp, stubborn, deeply human, and completely impossible to look away from. She is exactly the kind of protagonist mystery readers wait years to find.
 
The mystery itself is intelligent, layered, and genuinely surprising. Nothing is what it first appears to be. Every answer opens a new question. And when the truth finally comes — it earns it.
 
Perfect for fans of Tana French, Attica Locke, and anyone who believes the best mysteries are the ones where the crime is the least interesting thing that happened.
 
Book Two — The Teotihuacan Weight — is coming soon.
 
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