THE INCIDENT ON THE BRIDGE

One night in June, a studious 17-year-old girl disappears from the apex of the Coronado-San Diego Bay Bridge, third in North America for its suicide rate. The police can only assume Thisbe jumped, but her body isn't found the next day, or the next, and Frank Le Stang, who lives alone on his boat beside the bridge, believes Thisbe is the reincarnation of a girl called Julia and thus his only hope for atonement. A psychological thriller about a haunted drifter, a naïve girl, and missed connections, The Incident on the Bridge is also a kaleidoscopic version of the Greek myth "Pyramus and Thisbe" set in a world where cell phones become the walls we try to whisper through, and where too much freedom can be as deadly as too little.