cover image Chain Thinking

Chain Thinking

Elliott Light. Bancroft Press, $19.95 (211pp) ISBN 978-1-890862-21-3

In Elliott Light's Chain Thinking: A Shep Harrington SmallTown Mystery, the second book (after 2002's Lonesome Song) to feature the rural Virginia attorney, Harrington's hasty decision to become a foster parent to a chimpanzee leads to his playing amateur detective in a murder case involving the chimp's rescuer, a beautiful woman with terrible facial scars. A blurb from Martha Grimes should elevate the profile of this one above the usual small-press level, as will the implicit argument for animal, specifically primate, rights.