Death Comes for the Deconstructionist

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(10 10 9 1)>Jon Mote-grad school dropout and serial failure-has been hired to investigate the murder of his erstwhile mentor Richard Pratt a star in the firmament of literary theory. Feeling unequal to the task Mote skitters on the edge of madness trying to stifle the increasingly threatening voices in his head. His only source of hope is the dogged love of his developmentally disabled sister Judy who serves as cheerleader critic and moral compass.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(10 10 9 1)>Death Comes for the Deconstructionist</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(10 10 9 1)> follows Mote and his sister through the streets and neighborhoods of Minneapolis and St. Paul Minnesota-from crime scenes to the halls of academe. Mote's investigation uncovers a series of suspects-including the victim's wife mistress and intellectual rivals. Along the way he stumbles onto the victim's terrible secret one that prompts the discovery of an equally dark mystery from his own past.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(10 10 9 1)>These revelations hasten Mote's descent into darkness putting both him and Judy at grave risk. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(10 10 9 1)>Death Comes for the Deconstructionist </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(10 10 9 1)>is a tragi-comic mystery a detective story that is at once suspenseful provocative and emotionally resonant. It asks not only whodunit but whether truth is ultimately something we create rather than discover.</span></p><p><br></p>