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.