About
Jim Head is a writer from Benton Harbor, Michigan, and a lifelong member of the Wesleyan Church. His Circuit Rider Mysteries series follows Reverend Elias Cane — a Methodist circuit rider and former Civil War sergeant — across the American West of the 1880s, where the Gospel travels on horseback and justice is rarely simple.
Head's Wesleyan roots give the series its theological backbone: a faith that is practical, grace-centered, and unafraid of hard questions. His protagonist carries a Bible and a Colt, preaches in revival tents and desert missions, and believes — sometimes against the evidence — that God is still at work in broken places.
The Circuit Rider Mysteries draw on the real history of frontier Protestantism, Catholic mission life, and the complex relationships between Anglo, Hispanic, and Native communities in the post-Civil War Southwest.
