Dead Reckoning

The deaths look like accidents. Every one of them is a correction.

By day, Elliot Marsh drives a delivery van through the Ontario backcountry. By the calculus he inherited from his engineer father, he is an actuary of consequences - staging flawless, untraceable accidents for the people whose negligence killed others and who walked away clean.

Three bodies in one frozen winter. No witness, no weapon, no pattern any investigator is paid to see. The insurance models flag the anomaly and bury it. Only one constable, Naya Kaur, writes the word that will haunt the next four years: pattern.

Then a land surveyor's stray photograph captures a sightline no one was meant to find - a line that points straight back at the man who calls himself a correction.

The system prices risk. It doesn't prosecute it. Elliot is counting on that. So is the detective who refuses to look away.

For readers of Jeff Lindsay's Dexter, Patricia Highsmith, and Jane Harper.

Methodical killer, vigilante justice, cat-and-mouse, dual POV, cold case, atmospheric wilderness thriller.

The Quiet Calculus - a complete six-book series.