Prosperity, NC, is in the midst of a multiple culture-clash. It has been discovered by the well-to-do, fleeing onerous tax rates in neighboring metropolitan areas, who are displacing the native farm families, and by a growing Hispanic population, many of whom don't have the benefit of green cards. For Judd Wheeler, a former Atlanta cop returning home, becoming chief of the three-officer police department was supposed to be a restful way to raise his son and pass into retirement.
Discovery of a beautiful, teenaged Latina's body on the banks of Six Mile Creek quickly brings on big-city complications. Racial tensions, promiscuity, a burgeoning drug situation all become manifest as Judd digs into the crime, coupled with the political pressures money and influence bring to bear on a small-town city council. The plot is well-devised and compelling, its solution satisfying.
The character of Judd Wheeler is likeable in the extreme. Not a super-sleuth, he is a hard-working, decent man, dealing with a teenaged son as best he can, and the memories and flashbacks of his own tragedy wearing him down. His juggling of the various factions and interests in town, while trying to solve the case and avoid a general race-conflict seems very real, and, thus, pleasing to this reader, at least.
Mr. Helms has simply produced a good book with SIX MILE CREEK. You should read it.
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