Elliott Light has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators. The most-rated is Throwaways.
Chain Thinking: A Shep Harrington Smalltown Mystery
Summary
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 anti-obesity 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 percent 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?
©2009 Elliott D. Light (P)2020 Bancroft Press
The Gene Police: A Shep Harrington Smalltown Mystery
Summary
Before the words white supremacy filled the airways, before we learned of American Nazis and the alt-right, before there was a Muslim ban, before we considered building a wall or knew what DACA stands for, there was eugenics - a pseudoscience that promoted the belief that a race could be improved by controlling who was allowed to mate with whom. It was eugenics that compelled white doctors to attempt to murder Baby John. It was compassion that led to his kidnapping. And it is the cruelest of circumstances - the murder of Jennifer Rice - that 50 years later leads Shep Harrington to search for Baby John. As Shep soon learns, the quest 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 took it? Why was he taken? And who killed Jennifer Rice? When Shep learns that Baby John was born at a hospital run by Alton Nichols, a famous Virginia eugenicist, he is drawn into the dark history of the American eugenics movement and its proponents - the so-called "gene police".
©2018-- Elliott Light (P)2018 Bancroft Press
Lonesome Song
Summary
Imagine you’re in your late 20s. School is behind you. You have money, a beautiful wife, lots of friends. Everything you ever wanted is at your fingertips. And then suddenly, it’s all taken from you. Shep Harrington was a young, prosperous, and happy lawyer, his bright future shining on the horizon like a beacon. But things that shine are not always what they seem. Contentment can be intoxicating, dulling the senses to the signs of change. He and wife Anna were living their dream - together. And then they weren't. Shep was convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Anna, believing him guilty, divorced him. Both were victims of a system created and operated by an older generation that valued power and money over fairness. Out of prison, disbarred and disillusioned, Shep must again contend with people who see truth in practical terms as he probes the death of Reilly Heartwood, a man whom he loved and who loved him. A classic murder mystery set in a small town with secrets, Lonesome Song explores the challenges of surviving injustice and of doing the right thing.
©2012 Elliott D. Light (P)2020 Bancroft Press
Throwaways
Summary
The body of a young girl drifts over a reef where Jake Savage is photographing lionfish, beautiful brown-striped creatures with feathery pectoral fins that could almost make one forget their venomous spines. For an instant, Jake thinks she might be watching him, but she has no snorkel or mask. She isn't wearing a swimsuit, but rather, is clad in only a shirt and panties. And she can't have looked at him because she has no eyes. What has this child done to die so young - to be forgotten and left to drift until consumed by the creatures of the sea? A voice whispers to let her go, but he can't leave her to the whim of the wind and tide...a simple decision with deadly consequences.
©2021 Elliott Light (P)2020 Bancroft Press