No sooner is Cyrus Brandt elected as the sheriff of a Central Illinois county than his department is faced with the responsibility for solving multiple killings: a lawyer, a farmer, an agribusiness executive, and a college girl. Cyrus struggles to find the connections between these murders as his entire department and personal life are in turmoil.Deadly Crop is the third novel in the Cyrus Brandt Series, the saga of Cyrus Brandt, a man with a troubled past who has returned to his childhood home to make a fresh start.