Chicago Jazz: A Tony Alfano Thriller - Paperback

by Gregory C. Randall (Author)

In Chicago, during the hot summer of 1933, Detective Tony Alfano is stunned by the violent and seemingly senseless death of a young Italian woman. Her body, discovered in the pit of a construction site, bears the marks of obscene torture and cruelty. As the weeks pass and the Chicago World's Fair excitedly anticipates the celebrated arrival of Mussolini's aerial armada of twenty-four flying boats, more murdered and brutalized bodies are discovered. Are the victims connected to this spectacular event or is this the work of a deranged psychopath? Alfano and his sergeant have only days to find the answer - and the killer - before Mussolini's fascist air fleet arrives from Italy and lands on the waters of Lake Michigan. Will Alfano find and stop the murderer before they can kill again? Or, will the Century of Progress World's Fair be forced to close due to fear, international politicians, and Chicago politics? Everything is on Alfano's shoulders.

Author Biography

Gregory C. Randall, Michigan born and Chicago raised, has made Northern California his home since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife forty-five years ago. He is the author of the five book series, The Sharon O'Mara Chronicles, and the Detective Tony Alfano noir thrillers set in 1933 Chicago. His young adult novel Elk River has won acclimation and awards from the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) and the Northern California Book Publishers Association (BAIPA). Mr. Randall is also a professional landscape architect with forty-five years of community and urban planning experience. He is the president of his own design firm, Randall Planning & Design, Inc. He has designed hundreds of residential, commercial, and retail properties throughout the western United States during his career. This professional interest in how we in America develop our communities directly led to his non-fiction biographical work, America's Original GI Town, Park Forest, Illinois, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2000. It was updated and released in a new edition in 2010. Mr. Randall has been writing novels for over twenty years and has his own independent publishing company, Windsor Hill Publishing. Mr. Randall is also a book cover artist and book interior designer. All his books are available through the usual sources.