A Buhler High School graduate has released a new novel set in central Kansas that blends small-town Kansas life with a suspenseful murder mystery.
Author Rock Neelly, now based in Cincinnati, recently published Late Night Radio, a thriller set in 1978 that takes place in Burrton and Hutchinson.
The novel begins when a sheriff’s deputy visits a Burrton farm after a woman fails to pick up her children from school. When authorities investigate, they discover she has vanished—launching what Neelly describes as a tense “cat-and-mouse” mystery involving a farmer who may be hiding a dark secret.
Neelly said he wanted to create a story grounded in Kansas culture…