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Aaron Tucker, fresh from a trip to Hollywood to "take meetings" on his screenplay, finds himself dragged kicking and screaming once again into investigating a murder, this time of a man in a nearby town shot while walking his dog at night. The young man accused of the crime has Asperger’s Syndrome, the same autism-related disorder that Aaron's son Ethan has had since birth.

Aaron is hip-deep in the investigation when he’s assaulted by visiting Visigoths—no, wait, that's just his wife Abby's brother and his family, come to visit for a week. But then a local mobster becomes aware of Aaron's poking around in the killing, and wants him to stop. It's going to be an especially interesting holiday season for New Jersey's funniest height-challenged amateur sleuth.

"Funny? Of course—but also wise, suspenseful, and a genuine pleasure to read."—Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series

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Chain Thinking

A Shep Harrington SmallTown Mystery
Elliott Light

Syndey Vail, once a beautiful soap opera star, now has a passion for championing the rights of animals but she keeps the controversial methods of her cause as shrouded as she keeps her partially disfigured face. Sydney enters lawyer-cum-detective Shep Harrington's life in a cloud of dust and vanishes just as quickly, leaving behind two very different but strangely connected things: a chimpanzee and a murder.

The chimpanzee is the young Kikora, whom Sydney liberated from her confining cage in a testing lab at DMI a mega-medical conglomerate led by the hard-driving Howard Doring, who apparently believes that the human animal has every right to exploit all living things.

At DMI, she and other chimps were used to test a new antiobesity pill. The murdered victim, killed by a blow to the head, is Dr. Celia Stone, the DMI researcher in charge of Kikora.

Soon Shep realizes that Kikora, left in his initially unwilling care, is not only stolen property, but the longer he keeps her, the more threatened his own freedom becomes and the more often tough questions race through his head. What makes an animal property? What is the source of human rights? What about an animal whose only difference from humans is 1.6% of DNA, that can empathize and suffer like humans? The questions confuse Shep, who's never had to think hard about them before.

And the only answers he seems to find lie in the big brown eyes of a chimp called Kikora.

Chain Thinking is a whodunit with a heart and a mystery with a message. Once the mystery is solved, there's a whole lot more left to think about. Shep finds his answers. Will you find yours?

"In Chain Thinking, a great and lovable novel, Shep Harrington demonstrates the ability of one solitary person to make a difference, in his case by effecting change in the lives of animals. For those of us involved daily in saving animals in the real world, Chain Thinking serves as a wonderful affirmation. Those not yet involved in that essential enterprise, I hope, will see it as an engaging open door."—TAMIRA THAYNE, FOUNDER, DOGS DESERVE BETTER: NO CHAINS!

Chain Thinking

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