A riveting new rural thriller from three-time Shamus Award nominee and two-time Derringer Award winner Richard Helms!
Prosperity, North Carolina, used to be a red clay farming community populated mostly by the descendents of families that had settled the land over two centuries earlier. Then, developers from a huge city in the next county discovered its rolling hills and winding streams, and decided to turn it into a suburb.
Former Atlanta cop and hometown high school football hero Judd Wheeler returned to Prosperity eight years ago to take a position as the Chief of the new Police Department. With one tragic exception, it's been a quiet, uneventful job.
Now, the body of a young illegal immigrant Mexican girl has been found alongside the banks of Six Mile Creek. For the first time since his return to Prosperity, Wheeler finds himself with a murder on his hands.
His investigation will place him in direct opposition with his closest childhood friend, ratchet up racial and class tensions in a community already stretched to the limit, and nearly tear his quiet little town to pieces as he searches for the murderer of Gypsy Camareno. At the same time, coincidences he can't ignore will stoke Chief Wheeler's own nightmares of terrible events years earlier, and interfere with his ability to see the case clearly.
In the small North Carolina town of Prosperity, the line between desperation and salvation runs right down the middle of Six Mile Creek.
"Six Mile Creek is the most engrossing crime novel I've read all year! This is a real story, with real characters. For me, that's as good as it gets!"
-Steve Hamilton, Edgar Award winning author of The Lock Artist
"...When the body of a Mexican migrant worker is found along the banks of Six Mile Creek, Police Chief Judd Wheeler uncovers his town's dark side. Discrimination against migrant Hispanics and tensions between old residents and newbies keep the plot moving to an unexpected ending."
-Library Journal
"...Tightly plotted and refreshingly fast-paced. Veteran Helms introduces a likable protagonist in a promising new series... "
-Kirkus Reviews
"...Helms, a Shamus Award nominee and a two-time Derringer Award winner, has created an engrossing and timely story that will appeal to a wide range of readers."
-Barbara Bibel, ALA Booklist
Genre: Mystery
Prosperity, North Carolina, used to be a red clay farming community populated mostly by the descendents of families that had settled the land over two centuries earlier. Then, developers from a huge city in the next county discovered its rolling hills and winding streams, and decided to turn it into a suburb.
Former Atlanta cop and hometown high school football hero Judd Wheeler returned to Prosperity eight years ago to take a position as the Chief of the new Police Department. With one tragic exception, it's been a quiet, uneventful job.
Now, the body of a young illegal immigrant Mexican girl has been found alongside the banks of Six Mile Creek. For the first time since his return to Prosperity, Wheeler finds himself with a murder on his hands.
His investigation will place him in direct opposition with his closest childhood friend, ratchet up racial and class tensions in a community already stretched to the limit, and nearly tear his quiet little town to pieces as he searches for the murderer of Gypsy Camareno. At the same time, coincidences he can't ignore will stoke Chief Wheeler's own nightmares of terrible events years earlier, and interfere with his ability to see the case clearly.
In the small North Carolina town of Prosperity, the line between desperation and salvation runs right down the middle of Six Mile Creek.
"Six Mile Creek is the most engrossing crime novel I've read all year! This is a real story, with real characters. For me, that's as good as it gets!"
-Steve Hamilton, Edgar Award winning author of The Lock Artist
"...When the body of a Mexican migrant worker is found along the banks of Six Mile Creek, Police Chief Judd Wheeler uncovers his town's dark side. Discrimination against migrant Hispanics and tensions between old residents and newbies keep the plot moving to an unexpected ending."
-Library Journal
"...Tightly plotted and refreshingly fast-paced. Veteran Helms introduces a likable protagonist in a promising new series... "
-Kirkus Reviews
"...Helms, a Shamus Award nominee and a two-time Derringer Award winner, has created an engrossing and timely story that will appeal to a wide range of readers."
-Barbara Bibel, ALA Booklist
Genre: Mystery
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