The Trellis

<p>Debbie Peck's headhunter calls to offer her a new beginning at the Jefferson Trellis the last bastion of American prosperity in Chicago's near future.</p><p>The salary might relieve her from crushing debt the work might rescue the broken world from itself and the bloodstains draping her new desk . . . those should be mopped up by Monday.</p><p><br></p><p>As Debbie navigates her new position and Six Counties Police Detective Melody Jackson investigates the murders occurring around the Trellis they each untwine the tendrils of a secret creeping through its corner offices. Like the gardens at the Trellis's base their worlds weave between the lush the stark the delicate and the deadly.</p><p><br></p><p>Jools Cantor's rich prose and intricate storytelling dances between mystery sci-fi and literary fiction layering a decade or two of decline to the American condition. Debbie's world is both familiar and fantastic both funny and frightening but to call it a dystopia would damn our own to the same definition.</p>