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Hawkins Construction Company of Little Rock is under investigation for building code violations and negligent homicide charges after the wing of a nursing home collapses. Reporter Jake Smith is investigating the case, which gets more intense after his inside source turns up dead in Lake D'Arbonne in north Louisiana. Out of fear, Jake's source has hidden more information in the Spearsville, Louisiana Cemetery that will blow the case wide open. Jake must find the secret that lies buried Between the Elders.
Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith is a Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, where he earned his Ph.D. He is the author of two books: The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film
Music (1998) and Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist: Reading the Hollywood Reds (2014). He has also published several articles and book chapters on the role of sound and music in American cinema. He is currently at work on a book that traces development of the classical Hollywood film score during the 1930s that examines how studios allocated musical resources to films based on their position within the hierarchy of prestige pictures, programmers, and "B" films.
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