New Harmony

Dialing the three previous novels' tendency toward theatrical catastrophe up to 11, Michael Gills' concluding effort to the Go Love Quartet traces the Stepwell history of hurt and tragedy and loss, arriving at, if only temporarily, a fragile harmony that allows the present to be reconciled with the past.

Pursued west, Edgar Paris can't outrun his past. He ends up in an Arizona jail for, "defamation of distinguished persons as manifest at heritage sites," not to mention slander and assault o...