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Buildings (2017)
—Book #2 in the series, THE CRIME FILES OF KATY GREEN
Samuel Kubiak has severe issues. A distraught survivor of the California Foster Care System, he suffers from a condition of alopecia, incessant bullying, and a bizarre sexual frustration… But just as life seems its worst, he’s visited by a dark guardian angel: One who whispers into his ear that by walking in His shadow, Samuel can avenge himself on all who have wronged him.
And so do a string of grisly murders begin to emerge across Sacramento, victims whose killer seems to have emerged from nowhere and left without leaving any clue.
Assigned to the gruesome case are homicide detectives Katy Green and Johnny Cato, dubbed by the press as Sacramento’s “Green Hornet and Cato.” There hasn’t been a case yet they haven’t solved, but now how can they track down a psychopathic suspect that comes and goes in the shadows?With Interior Illustrations by Greg Chapman
Discover why readers have been applauding this stark, fast-paced noir series by multiple-award-winning author, Gene O’Neill! Read each volume and then continue with the other shocking case files of Sacramento’s “Green Hornet and Cato”!
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THE CRIME FILES OF KATY GREEN #2: SHADOW OF THE DARK ANGEL
Author, Gene O’Neill
Gene O’Neill has seen over 175 of his stories and novellas published, several also reprinted in France, Spain, and Russia. Some of these stories have been collected in Ghost Spirits, Computers & World Machines; The Grand Struggle; In Dark Corners; Dance of the Blue Lady; The Hitchhiking Effect; and Lethal Birds. In addition, he’s published six novels.
Gene has been a Bram Stoker Award® finalist twelve times. In 2010 Taste of Tenderloin won the haunted house for collection, and in 2012 The Blue Heron won for Long Fiction. Recent releases include the four trade paperback versions of the Cal Wild Chronicles from Written Backwards Press, a number of short stories, and a novelette. A long novel, The White Plague Chronicles, is a work in progress, parts to an interested publisher.
Gene lives in the Napa Valley with his wife, Kay. He has two grown children, Gavin, who lives in Oakland, and Kaydee who lives in Carlsbad and rides herd on his two grandchildren, Fiona and TJ.
When he isn’t writing or visiting grandchildren, Gene likes to read good fiction or watch sports—all of them, especially boxing.
For more about Gene's work, visit his ISFDB page.
