The Scent of Rain and Lightening

I just finished reading The Scent of Rain and Lightening by Nancy Pickard, and I absolutely loved it, and would recommend it to anyone who loves to read a good story of mystery and deception. In a small Kansas town, when Jody Linder was just three years old, her father was murdered and her mother disappeared, believed to have been murdered along with her husband.  The man convicted of their murders, Bill Crosby, was sentenced to 60 years hard time.  Jody spent the rest of her life being protected by her family and the rest of the town, while trying to prove she wasn’t a victim.  Collin, Bill Crosby's son, spent the rest of his life being watched closely by everyone in town, who was waiting for him to turn into his father, while trying to prove his father’s innocence.   

Now, Collin's a lawyer, and though he still hasn't been able to prove his father innocent, he has managed to get him commuted and released from prison, on the basis of an unfair trial.  Jody can’t understand how or why, though, because she positive that Bill Crosby killed her parents.  As Bill Crosby returns home, all of a sudden, people are saying that he’s innocent.  After hearing their reasons why, Jodi begins to wonder about man’s innocence herself, and it brings her to a question.  What really happened to her parents?