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The Gene Police: A Shep Harrington Smalltown Mystery (A Shep Harrington Smalltown Mystery, 3) - Hardcover
The brutal murder of Jennifer Rice. The evidence: DNA found at the scene, DNA that belongs to a man long thought dead, and a shadowy fifty-year old photograph of a woman holding a baby taken at a near-by farm.
Shep Harrington is drawn into this legal quagmire by the arrival of his friend, and now client, Reggie Mason, a black state trooper, who admits that he obtained the DNA illegally. All Reggie wants Shep to do is to ask former residents of the farm it they remember anyone taking pictures or if they saw a woman with a baby. But simple requests are not easily contained. As Shep soon learns, the request brings him to the top of a slippery slope with an ill-defined edge.Question begets question, and the slide down the slope proves inevitable: What happened to the baby? Who is in the photograph? And who killed Jennifer Rice?
The answers lead Shep into a confrontation with the so called gene police, a confrontation fifty years in the making.
Shep Harrington is drawn into this legal quagmire by the arrival of his friend, and now client, Reggie Mason, a black state trooper, who admits that he obtained the DNA illegally. All Reggie wants Shep to do is to ask former residents of the farm it they remember anyone taking pictures or if they saw a woman with a baby. But simple requests are not easily contained. As Shep soon learns, the request brings him to the top of a slippery slope with an ill-defined edge.Question begets question, and the slide down the slope proves inevitable: What happened to the baby? Who is in the photograph? And who killed Jennifer Rice?
The answers lead Shep into a confrontation with the so called gene police, a confrontation fifty years in the making.
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I am a retired patent attorney living in Florida with my wife Sonya and our feline, Tsuki. I spent most of my life in the Washington, D.C. area. I grew up in McLean, Virginia before the beltway was constructed. Some of my classmates in grade school lived on nearby farms. McLean had a small town feel to it. Gossip spread without the Internet. Party lines were common. Secrets were hard to keep.
When I was in my early thirties, my life pivoted when I was accused of a crime I didn't commit. My defense counsel and I discussed plans for my likely indictment and possible imprisonment. I could expect to be handcuffed and paraded in front of the media. This experience with the so-called justice system ended after a two year ordeal without an indictment and without going to trial. Even so, it could have ended differently.
Sadly, I will never fully believe that prosecutors, investigators, or the government are as interested in the truth as they are in getting a conviction, an attitude that I share with the semi-fictional Shep Harrington.
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When I was in my early thirties, my life pivoted when I was accused of a crime I didn't commit. My defense counsel and I discussed plans for my likely indictment and possible imprisonment. I could expect to be handcuffed and paraded in front of the media. This experience with the so-called justice system ended after a two year ordeal without an indictment and without going to trial. Even so, it could have ended differently.
Sadly, I will never fully believe that prosecutors, investigators, or the government are as interested in the truth as they are in getting a conviction, an attitude that I share with the semi-fictional Shep Harrington.
"A strong mystery supported by its powerful treatment of racial injustice."
--Booklist
"Light's thought-provoking third mystery features attorney Shep Harrington . . . who learns that Sweetwater Hospital was run at the time by a prominent eugenicist, who shared Nazi beliefs about race. Light's timely look at an almost forgotten dark chapter of recent American history, when doctors experimented on those considered racially inferior, more than compensates for the routine mystery."
--Publishers Weekly
"The Gene Police is the third novel in the Shep Harrington SmallTown Mystery series and my introduction to both Shep and Elliott Light. Being shrouded in mystery meant that I wanted to continuously read (well into the night too.) Shep is an interesting character and brilliantly complicated. The book contains intense plot elements; some are really quite harrowing. I wasn't crying, there was something in my eye. The twists and turns of the plot had me guessing up to the last page and I found the writing style easy to like. If you love mystery, then really do give this book series a go."
--NovelKicks - bit.ly/Novelkickreview
"The Gene Police by Elliott Light is an original and simply riveting mystery novel by a master of the genre--one that is especially recommended for community library Mystery/Suspense collections."
--Midwest Book Review
--Booklist
"Light's thought-provoking third mystery features attorney Shep Harrington . . . who learns that Sweetwater Hospital was run at the time by a prominent eugenicist, who shared Nazi beliefs about race. Light's timely look at an almost forgotten dark chapter of recent American history, when doctors experimented on those considered racially inferior, more than compensates for the routine mystery."
--Publishers Weekly
"The Gene Police is the third novel in the Shep Harrington SmallTown Mystery series and my introduction to both Shep and Elliott Light. Being shrouded in mystery meant that I wanted to continuously read (well into the night too.) Shep is an interesting character and brilliantly complicated. The book contains intense plot elements; some are really quite harrowing. I wasn't crying, there was something in my eye. The twists and turns of the plot had me guessing up to the last page and I found the writing style easy to like. If you love mystery, then really do give this book series a go."
--NovelKicks - bit.ly/Novelkickreview
"The Gene Police by Elliott Light is an original and simply riveting mystery novel by a master of the genre--one that is especially recommended for community library Mystery/Suspense collections."
--Midwest Book Review
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- PublisherBancroft Press
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1610882172
- ISBN 13 9781610882170
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages264
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The Gene Police is a work of fiction that wraps a murder mystery in elements of the eugenics movement. To be clear, it is not a treatise on the subject but should enlighten readers about this little known pseudo science and hopefully inspire some of them to delve deeper into its history, its proponents, and its impact on American life. The author puts it this way: "My interest in race issues can be traced to growing up in the segregated suburbs of Washington, D.C. My mother's relatives were slave owners. My great great uncle was a famous eugenicist who was instrumental in the passage of the miscegenation and sterilization laws in Virginia. I'm convinced that if we as society are to rid ourselves of the curse of racism and white supremacy, we need to continue to keep the issue in the public conversation. My hope is that The Gene Police will add to the dialogue about racial issues by teaching readers about America's fascination with eugenics while simultaneously entertaining them." A smalltown murder mystery wrapped up in the little known science of eugenics. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781610882170
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