Book Description
A literary mystery, The Trailcutter touches on environmentalism, Millennial economic anxiety and Los Angeles’s urban wilderness.
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When he was younger, Leonard “Lee” Skay weathered the psychological fallout of his mother’s escape from a cult. Now entering middle age, he is a builder of hiking trails around Los Angeles County, though hasn’t been hired in a while. His marriage to Dawn, a professional screenwriter, is one of increasing friction and unspoken resentments. So when a wealthy colleague of Dawn’s named Terry Thomas asks him to build a private trail in the canyon behind his Malibu home, Lee jumps at the opportunity.
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While out there working, he encounters a strange man named Daniel Williams Janus, who seems to have carved a secret, minimalist life for himself in the depths of the canyon. Then, after a series of unexplained shootings in the area, and some odd coincidences linking Janus with Terry, Lee finds himself slipping further into the shadows of a potentially deadly mystery.