Laytons Grove is a crime‑drama novel by R.M. Lowery set in a struggling small town in Illinois. The story centers on Sean McKenna, a highly skilled thief who carefully plans every job. His sister Reagan stays out of his criminal business but desperately wants him to rejoin the family.
Sean’s world collapses when his reckless partners, Jack and Travis, draw the attention of Detective Mary Morelli.
As Mary closes in on the trio, Jack pushes Sean into a dangerously under‑planned heist. The disastrous results shatters the town’s peacefulness, places lives in danger, and inflicts irreparable damage to generations of families.
R.M. Lowery
R.M. Lowery is the award-winning author of the Jakob Larsen Mysteries—The Gentle Slope, We Kill Our Own, and Time Fades Away, as well as Laytons Grove and Tough Messes: Eleven Stories of Crime and Desperation. His short fiction has also appeared in Black Cat Mystery Magazine, Workers Write, The First Line, and others. Lowery lives in Colorado with his beautiful wife and their clowder (of cats).
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