Over a period of seven days in 2006, two ex-cons, Ricky Gray and his nephew Ray Dandridge, terrorized the city of Richmond, Virginia, during what was known as the Richmond Spree Murders. Among their victims were the rock musician Bryan Harvey and his “two daughters and beautiful wife.” To this day, Richmonders find the senseless brutality of the crimes hard to fathom and impossible to forget. In Sun Gone Down, Chris Orlet delivers a haunting account of two Americas, one where the American Dream is very much alive, and another where life in these United States is a traumatic nightmare, and that fateful morning when those two Americas collided. Chris Orlet is the author of the true crime novel Sun Gone Down: The Story of the Richmond Spree Murders; and the neo-noir/crime novels Jack's Fork, So Many Things to Bury, A Taste of Shotgun (all published by Down & Out Books) and In the Pines (New Pulp Press). He lives in St. Louis.