The Tree on the Hill

In this first book in the Rodney Smith Mystery Series, there is a young man displaying sharp intelligence and mental alertness who owns a small town newspaper in Conner, North Carolina. He stays busy working with the chief of police to solve cases that have been cold for a very long time and some of which may never be solved. His hunger for getting to the truth leads him in all directions and has left him baffled for a long time about the case of the disappearance of two young people. No matter where he turns for answers, everything seems to lead to the tree on the hill. Follow along with him as he opens the case that will keep him up nights and take him to the very edge of sanity to solve the case that for years has tortured the minds of those who live in Conner, North Carolina.