In Shadows in the Creek, author Michael H. Balfour drops Dante Villehart, a disgraced former journalist, into Edenvale, a polished small town with rot under the lacquer, then sets him on the trail of Lila Summers’s murder. What begins as a local mystery widens into a tangle of money, family grievance, civic theater, and buried loyalties, with Dante trying to solve the crime while also confronting the damage of his own past. The novel’s real engi…
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