Church Under Mercy Lake: An August Rusk Mystery

When the water begins to fall at Mercy Lake, the county tells itself the crisis is only practical. A drought has deepened. The dam is under stress. Boat ramps are closed, hazard buoys lean in the shallows, and the exposed lakebed smells of mud, gasoline, algae, and dead fish. Then the ruins of Mercy Chapel begin to rise from the water for the first time in decades.And in the broken frame where the...