The ReconstructionistIn a gripping novel of secrets and survival from an acclaimed, emerging literary voice, the collision between a budding forensic investigator, his tormented mentor, and the haunted woman who emerges from the wreckage of his past will have fateful results for all. At loose ends after college, Ellis Barstow drifts back to his hometown and a strange profession: reconstructing fatal traffic accidents. After meeting up with his half brothers high school

From the author of The Bad Book Affair comes a witty

·       Unless people are willing to face the unfamiliar they cannot be creative in any sense

” Kostya leaves Russia to pursue a boxing career only to find himself working as a doorman in a garish nightclub in the Toronto suburbs

and Solstasia looms like a knife over her neck

It also serves as a general reference on a number of diverse topics

the boy who loved her art and supported her through the hardest time of her life

For some musicians

conjuring up the little black dress

Patience’s husband

a veteran ISAF intelligence officer

Viewing the job as the opportunity of a lifetime

Tess has worked hard to keep her past buried