The Next Cool Place — Dave Balcom

Millionaire land developer Micky Buchanan's death on a lonely road in Michigan's north country brought his old friend, retired investigative journalist Jim Stanton back to a world he had vowed to never revisit. Buchanan had always told Stanton that his questions were both his greatest virtue and his worst attribute, and with the help of weekly newspaper publisher Jan Coldwell and her staff, Stanton's questions define the virtues and perils of developements that attract only the world's richest to locales with unique attributes