CONCENTRIC CIRCLES

Concentric Circles is a novel presently in the revision process. I am posting it chapter-by-chapter to discover reader reaction. The novel is about a deeply troubled family who seek help. It is also about the man who helps them as well as the story of his own tangled life. But more than that, it is the story of how each person has a life that is both independent of others and affected by each person with whom he or she comes into contact ... sometimes with deadly effect.

Life in the pathological lane takes the reader for unexpected rides down dark alleys and into troubled minds. The novel develops around and through the characters, so the focus is upon how the characters think, feel and act.

Concentric Circles looks at how each of us is separate yet connected and who we connect with partially determines what will happen to us.

The protagonist is a psychologist, Joshua Green. His own life is a tangled emotional web. He is recently divorced and living on an emotional tightrope while dealing with the most complex human problems in his professional life.

The family seeking his help, Lenore, Gabe and Jennifer Lefebvre, are a divorced couple and their eighteen year old daughter. Each has suffered immeasurable traumas in the past and the combination of their lives together is toxic.

In the background is a driven killer whose methods are bone chilling. Could the killer be one of the Lefebvres?

The book is meant for a mature audience --- one who likes a who dunnit that also delves into the pervasiveness of familial pathology.