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The Orland Park Patch:

Orland Park Inspires Backdrop For Resident's Newest Thriller Book
 

Lauren Traut,Patch Staff
 

Posted Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 6:19 pm CT|Updated Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 11:49 am CT
 

ORLAND PARK, IL — Inspiration can strike at the strangest of times, but for Kevin Kenealy, it happened to be in all the right places.

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Kenealy, an Orland Park resident and high school teacher, simply had to look around to scheme up the setting for his newest thriller book, titled "Neighborhood Watch." A member of a similar group in his own neighborhood off 143rd and 82nd Avenue in Orland Park, starting his next work was as simple as putting the proverbial pen to paper.

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"What would happen underneath the surface?" Kenealy said he wondered about a tight-knit community and its intrinsic groups. "As a thriller-horror writer, I ask these questions 'what-if?'"

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To read more of the story, click here. 

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Left, Kenealy poses at the Chicago Ridge Library Signing on Monday, July 18. Photo courtesy of Chicago Ridge Library Adult Services Manager Alicia Jackson. 

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To view Kenealy's presentation from that day, click here.

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