The Scent of Rain and Lightning (Hardcover) by Nancy Pickard

from WLR11

I really enjoyed this novel! Nancy Pickard has a great writing style and it kept me turning the pages... I was impressed by the way she described both the human relationships within the novel along with the essence of the beauty of the surroundings. I certainly will read more novels by this autho...

from SilversReviews

MAY BE SPOILERS Rose, Kansas, the Linder Ranch, and the Linder family..... ..............Jody Linder was left an orphan at the age of three, and the man who had been accused of killing her parents 20 years ago was being released from jail on this hot, muggy, rainless day in Rose, Kansas. Her uncl...

from bookappeal

Jody Linder was only three years old when her parents were murdered by a local man in the small town of Rose, Kansas. Raised by her paternal grandparents, Jody has just returned to Rose to begin a teaching career when her uncles tell her that Billy Crosby's sentence has been commuted and the man ...

from thornton37814

Jody Linder was just a small child on that rainy and stormy Kansas night when her father was murdered and her mother missing and presumed dead. She's been reared by her father's close-knit family. Now the man who was convicted of killing her father is being released from prison after having his s...

from RidgewayGirl

Jody's parents were murdered when she was three. Twenty-three years later she's a teacher living in the house her father died in, when she hears that the man who went to prison for the murders has had his conviction overturned and will be released pending a new trial. Pickard then returns to 1986...