The Shadows We Hide by Allen Eskens.
Journalist Joe Talbert investigates the murder of the father he never knew, and must reckon with his own family's past. This is a sequel to the book The Life We Bury.
Joe Talbert, Jr. has never once met his father. Joe has graduated college, a cub reporter for the Associated Press in Minneapolis. He comes across a story describing the murder of a man named Joseph Talbert.
Joe would like to know whether this man might be his father, he is shocked to find that none of residents have much to say about Joe Talbert other than his death was long overdue. Joe discovers that the dead man cheated his neighbors, threatened his daughter, and squandered his wife's inheritance after she, too, passed away -- an inheritance that may now be Joe's.
