Newly elected sheriff, Harlan Wheeler, stumbles across the skeletal remains of two people thought to be missing for eleven years. Were their deaths accidental or something more sinister? Matters are further complicated when the remains are positively identified and the investigation leads Sheriff Wheeler to the questionable suicide of one of the county's leading citizens. As the community's dark secrets are revealed, Harlan's love life is in turmoil. In 'The Chestnut Grove, ' author J. Bradfield McConnell examines the dynamics of a small, isolated community as well as the nature of the desperate and the deranged. Set in fictitious Berwick County, nestled in the Allegheny Mountains of Virginia, 'The Chestnut Grove' is the first of a coming series of Harlan Wheeler Mysteries. Follow Sheriff Harlan Wheeler in the next volume, "After The Flood," coming in Late 2014.