October Novel Prep Challenge

I use the blush emoji quite regularly, Adherennium - Maybe Writing?. Not sure what that says about me...

For a red herring, I was thinking the neighbor was a red herring. The guys think he's trying to figure out what happened to the farmer, but in reality, he doesn't care. But you don't find that out until the end. For most of the book, you think the neighbor is trying to figure out about the farmer.