My second novel, "Lodi"

I've written a second novel! This is not purely a shameless plug for people to check it out. Like my first book, The Cypress Club, there is a character in Lodi that was sort of inspired by the possibility of seeing Meryl playing it onscreen. It's a supporting character in Lodi, and if you read it, you'll have little difficulty identifying who it is. I've included the cover blurb below the photo.  

After his brother's brush with death, Luke Hanlor is pulled back to the Minnesota farm he fled thirty years ago. Every acre reopens old wounds: a neighbor's mysterious death, estrangement from his daughter, and the disappearance of his youngest brother-a wound that has shaped every choice Luke has made, and a guilt he has never found a way to outrun. 

 As a predatory megafarm closes in, Luke allies with a grassroots movement fighting to save family farms, only to discover its local leader is a trusted family friend who may know more about Luke's past than she's ever let on, and whose knowledge threatens to unravel everything Luke believes he's escaped.

 Lodi is a novel about returning home-to land, to family, and to the truths we spend our lives avoiding. With quiet humor and emotional precision, Jeff Wiemiller captures the beauty, burden, and stubborn grace of small-town America.