A Golden Thread

About the Book

This is a story of greed. A young lawyer in a public housing authority tries to solve a mystery. A major public works project is underway. In the course of his usual attention to task – the awarding of contracts, the dealing with various complaints – he discovers an anomaly. It appears a leak has developed, and funds otherwise unaccounted for are slipping away. As he explores the issue further, however – tentative, groping, uncertain – he finds that more and more obstacles have subtly been placed in his way. The last of these, as he persists, are not so subtle – the implication that he is somehow responsible for the disappearance of the funds and the attempt to kill him. He has, in short, become the object of his own investigation or some other’s. Injured and alienated, he must find the way – with the help of a few unlikely allies – to exonerate himself and place blame where it belongs.

About the Author

The author lives on the Sonoma coast about one hundred miles north of San Francisco. He has written six other books, including the tetralogy, Echoes and Silences. A Golden Thread is the second volume in a projected series entitled The Four Pillars; the first volume in that series, An Open Texture, was published in 2006.