Lay Your Head Down has everything I love in a good thrillerfamily drama, a determined main character, and an unflinching look at a timely issue.... will stay with you long after you reach its gripping conclusion.Kellye Garrett, award-winning and Edgar-nominated author of Like A SisterA young woman returns to her rural Minnesota hometown, where a radical evangelical pastor has poisoned everyones mindsand may be covering up a murder.After Del Walker fled her small hometown and its cult-like church, she vowed to never return. The man she loved, Lars, left her to marry the local golden girl Eve, and their romance is now the focus of Eves viral blog espousing the pastors conservative philosophy about women and marriage. But six years later, Lars is suddenly killed, and shes convinced it couldnt have been an accident.When Del returns to her hometown for the funeral, she discovers the now mega-churchand the insidious, patriarchal teachings of Pastor Rick Franklinhas grown not only in size but in influence. Eve was clearly discontent in her marriage, despite the carefully constructed Noble Wife positivity of her blog posts, and Del knows better than anyone just how far she will go to get what she wants. Del is determined to cut through the churchs lies and corruption to find out who killed Larseven if it means confronting the religious trauma shes spent years trying to bury.