fractal: A novel of chaotic suspense

When sixty-two-year-old Malachi Walmsley learns that his mother has died, he travels from his residence in Flagstaff , Arizona, to his boyhood home in Covington, Louisiana, to settle her estate—and it’s a large one. Estranged from his mother for forty years, Malachi wonders how authorities even knew how to find him.

As Malachi makes his journey, he tells his story and communicates via e-mail with the important people in his life: his wife, Amanda Greene, from whom he is contemplating divorc...