Reconstructing Brigid

The death of a politically influential chief executive's daughter, discovered inside her car off the coast of Maine, leaves her father determined to hire the most capable investigator he can find. He needs to know whether the crash was an ordinary accident or whether someone ran her off the road. Brigid Ashbury, the nation's leading expert in reconstructing vehicle collisions, takes the job, and at first the case seems straightforward.

There is one complication: Brigid is terrified of cars. That fear grows out of a collision of her own, and she is working through it while trying to establish what really happened on that coastal road. The inquiry pulls her into a wealthy family's affairs, where a possible kidnapping and disputes over inheritance cloud the picture. Her strongest suspect is Aaron White, who is dating the victim's sister. He has admitted sleeping with the dead woman twice but insists he had nothing to do with her death.

Brigid decides to keep Aaron close by hiring him as her driver. He seems eager to charm her and everyone else around him, yet the two prove to be effective partners. To solve the case, though, Brigid first has to recover enough to get behind the wheel again.