title: The Gene Police: A Shep Harrington Smalltown Mystery
author:  Elliott Light 
description: <span><span></span>"A strong mystery supported by its powerful treatment of racial injustice."</span><br /><b><span>--Booklist</span></b><br /><span></span><br /><br /><span>"</span><span>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."</span><br /><b><span>--Publishers Weekly</span></b><b><span></span></b><br /><span></span><br /><br /><span>"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.</span><span> </span><span>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."</span><br /><b><span>--NovelKicks</span></b><span> - bit.ly/Novelkickreview</span><span></span><br /><br /><span>"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."</span><br /><span><b>--Midwest Book Review</b></span>
zlib_text: # The Genehunter #3
  
  
  ### The Clone Who Didn't Know
  
  
  ### Simon Kewin
  
  
  
  
  
  #### Acknowledgements
  
  
  Thanks once again to Stephanie Lorée for the invaluable feedback, and for
  pointing out that Devi is female.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  #### The Genehunter #1
  
  
  #### The Wrong Tom Jacks
  
  
    
  [![](images/00001.jpg)](http://simonkewin.co.uk/p/the-genehunter.html)
  
  
    
    
  Simms is a genehunter, paid by megarich collectors to track down the DNA of
  the famous for their private zoos. He's employed to locate the genetic code of
  Tom Jacks. But not the rock star Tom Jacks, just an unknown namesake.  
    
  The job bugs Simms. Something about it is wrong. Someone is playing him.
  Problem is he doesn't know who or why. None of the illegal plug-in technology
  filling his brain is much damn use. The one person who can help him is an ex-
  lover, but she's also the one person on the planet who never wants to speak to
  him again.  
    
  The last thing he needs is Agent Ballard of the Genetic Monitoring Agency
  pulling him out of the 