Courtney Crowder

1 week ago | press-citizen.com | Courtney Crowder

The Des Moines cameo just had to be about corn. Both our beautiful capital city and our favorite export play background in a scene in the new film, “The Accountant 2,” which is now streaming on Amazon Prime. A sequel to — you guessed it — “The Accountant,” the second film in the sure-to-become-a-franchise collection sees our star, an autistic forensic accountant played by Ben Affleck, team up with his violent, but ultimately extremely caring brother played by Jon Bernthal to solve a murder.

1 week ago | desmoinesregister.com | Courtney Crowder

The Des Moines cameo just had to be about corn. Both our beautiful capital city and our favorite export play background in a scene in the new film, “The Accountant 2,” which is now streaming on Amazon Prime. A sequel to — you guessed it — “The Accountant,” the second film in the sure-to-become-a-franchise collection sees our star, an autistic forensic accountant played by Ben Affleck, team up with his violent, but ultimately extremely caring brother played by Jon Bernthal to solve a murder.

3 weeks ago | desmoinesregister.com | Courtney Crowder

This is the second installment in the Register's three-part serial, "Doctor Deception."Dr. John H. Randall told the woman to come to the clinic after hours for her procedure. When she arrived, he was alone. No nurse. No residents. No one else. The woman was having trouble conceiving, she said in a deposition taken five decades after this appointment, and Dr. Randall was well-known in the community for helping women who hadn’t been able to get pregnant. Women like her. He was beloved, really.

3 weeks ago | desmoinesregister.com | Courtney Crowder

This is the final installment in the Register's three-part serial, "Doctor Deception."Bert Jay Miller checked his Ancestry profile regularly in the months that followed his discovery that his biological father wasn’t the man he’d grown up calling Dad. His network of half-siblings — the scions who all discovered late in life they shared the genes of Dr. John H. Randall, their mother’s fertility doctor — regularly checked their profiles, too.

3 weeks ago | desmoinesregister.com | Courtney Crowder

This is the first installment in the Register's three-part serial, "Doctor Deception."Liz Bright wasn’t going to sleep until she found their connection, the one she knew would unquestionably link her to him. She meant this literally. She was in her fifth hour of searching, skipping from family tree to family tree, the blue screen of her computer playing nightlight in the darkness of morning’s wee hours. No letting up, she told herself, until this was done.