Reconstructionist

In 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 girlfriend, Heather, he takes a job with her husband, John Boggs, a forensic reconstructionist specializing in fatal traffic accidents whose causes are unknown.Ellis takes to the work naturally, becoming absorbed in the fascinating challenges of reclaiming the hidden truths behind seemingly random accidents. But Ellis is harboring secrets of his ownhaunted by the fatal crash that killed his half-brother, Christopher. Boggs, in his exacting way, would argue that accident is the wrong word, that if two cars meeting at an intersection can be called an accident then anything canwhere we live, what we do, even who we fall in love with. And for Ellis these things are certainly no accident.And Ellis also harbors a second, more dangerous secretone that threatens to blow apart the mens lives and which leads to a frenzied race towards confrontation, reconciliation, and the unresolved mystery surrounding the accident that killed his brother.Like an episode ofCSI: The Midwestrewritten by Samuel Beckett,The Reconstructionistis a gripping novel of love, betrayal, and existential desperation.