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It's Not a Pretty Sight

By: Gar Anthony Haywood

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DIVWhen his ex-fiancée is murdered, Gunner vows to take vengeance on Los Angeles/divDIV/divDIVFor more than a decade, private detective Aaron Gunner has regretted letting Nina Hillman go. They met on a city bus while he was on his way to the Los Angeles Coliseum for a football game, and by the time they were through talking he had long since missed kickoff. He proposed to her quickly, only to get cold feet and cancel the wedding. After less than a year, she married another man. Eleven years later, Gunner is still alone, and Nina’s house is a crime scene./divDIV /divDIVThe homicide detectives tell Gunner that Nina’s husband has been abusing her for years. They assume that today he simply went too far. As he seeks justice for his long-lost love, Gunner uncovers a citywide chain of domestic abuse that he could have saved Nina from, had he been man enough to marry her. It’s too late to protect her now. Revenge will have to do./div

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1453252959

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Cemetery Road

By: Gar Anthony Haywood

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Cemetery Road

By: Gar Anthony Haywood

Cemetery Road is a power novel. Beginning to end, it never loses its grip . . . The book is a wonderful achievement" Michael Connelly When Errol 'Handy' White returns to his native Los Angeles to attend the funeral of his old friend R.J. Burrow, who has been brutally murdered, a terrible secret threatens to reveal itself. Twenty-six years earlier, Handy, R.J. and O'Neal Holden pulled a heist that went horrible awry, and Handy's been waiting for it to come back and haunt them ever since. Was the murder linked to the past? Handy knows he can't leave until he finds out for sure.

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1780100353

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You Can Die Trying

By: Gar Anthony Haywood

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You Can Die Trying

By: Gar Anthony Haywood

There is no way that Aaron Gunner, a black private investigator could care much about the death of an old security guard named Jack McGovern. Especially since McGovern was a former LAPD operative dismissed from the department for shooting a twelve year old black robbery suspect . But a case is a case and Gunner?s investigation into what really happened that night in Los Angeles is bound to please absolutely nobody.

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1852423897

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Good Man Gone Bad

An Aaron Gunner Mystery

By: Gar Anthony Haywood

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Good Man Gone Bad

An Aaron Gunner Mystery

By: Gar Anthony Haywood

Hard times are nothing new for private investigator Aaron Gunner. Working on the mean streets of South Central Los Angeles, he's seen more than his fair share of trouble. But when his cousin and confidante Del Curry commits suicide after allegedly killing his wife and critically injuring their daughter Zina, Gunner knows he's about to face the hardest times of all. He doesn't buy the LAPD's version of the shooting and isn't going to wait for Zina to regain consciousness to disprove it. Whatever drove Del to take his own life---and possibly assault his wife and daughter---Gunner's going to find it, even if it means learning things about his late cousin he'll wish he never knew. But first, he has a paying case to work, proving the innocence of an Afghan War veteran accused of murder. Plagued by seering migraines and occasional fits of rage, Harper Stowe III is counting on Gunner to fill the holes in his ruined memory that make him the perfect suspect in the killing of his former employer. With a new era of American racism and divided politics on the rise all around him, Gunner must seek the truth behind two fatal shootings now, and grieve for his beloved cousin later.

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1945551674

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Going Nowhere Fast

By: Gar Anthony Haywood

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Going Nowhere Fast

By: Gar Anthony Haywood

Joe and Dottie Loudermilk have it all worked out. They've kicked out the kids, sold the house, and hit the road to enjoy retirement their way--traveling the country in a state-of-the-art Airstream trailer. Finally, it's just the two of them--and the stranger's corpse they found in their bathroom this morning.

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When Last Seen Alive

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When Last Seen Alive

By: Gar Anthony Haywood

DIVAn encounter at the Million Man March sucks Gunner into an ice-cold missing persons case/divDIV/divDIVElroy Covington should have run. He had traveled to the Million Man March in Washington, DC, looking forward to a new city and new faces. Then in a Dupont Circle restaurant, a twist of fate brought him face to face with a man from his long-forgotten past. Instead of running, Elroy said hello. He never made it home./divDIV /divDIVEight months later, Elroy’s sister shows up in the Los Angeles office of private detective Aaron Gunner, who traded business cards with Elroy at the march and promptly forgot they ever met. Elroy’s last known location was Los Angeles, and his sister thinks he was coming to see the detective. As he tries to warm up Elroy’s frigid trail, Gunner uncovers ties to a black militant group. The time for brotherhood is over, and finding the vanished marcher will mean getting tough./div

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1453252932

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Bad News Travels Fast

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Bad News Travels Fast

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Retirees Dottie and Joe Loudermilk, who cruise the land in a trailer home, hit Washington, D.C., to visit their son Eddie in this humorous second entry in the series after @Going Nowhere Fast.^

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Fear of the Dark

By: Gar Anthony Haywood

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Fear of the Dark

By: Gar Anthony Haywood

Winner of the Shamus Award: A failed private eye searches Los Angeles for a murderous white supremacist. Aaron Gunner made a lousy private detective. After a year’s carnage in Vietnam and a quick exit from the police academy, private work was the only avenue he saw to be a hero. But the seediness, tedium, and lack of real power crushed his hopes, and he quit the job after inadvertently setting a pregnant woman up for a violent death. But after a savage racial murder, it may be time to come out of retirement. The white man comes to the Acey Deuce, a bar in South Central Los Angeles, to blow the head off a young black militant. The dead radical’s sister pays Gunner a visit with a .22 revolver, and convinces him to find her brother’s killer. As Gunner draws closer to answers, prejudice and rage threaten to tear Los Angeles apart. To save the city—and himself—Aaron Gunner must finally find his calling.

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1453252916

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In Things Unseen

A Novel

By: Gar Anthony Haywood

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In Things Unseen

A Novel

By: Gar Anthony Haywood

From acclaimed crime novelist Gar Anthony Haywood comes a riveting tale unlike any he's told before . . . Diane Edwards has spent the last eight months praying for a miracle after losing her son Adrian in a freak car accident at Seattle's Lakeridge Park. When she finds Adrian back in his bed one night-alive and well and oblivious to his death-it appears her prayers have been answered. But this isn't the kind of miracle Diane was expecting, because she soon learns Adrian is not the only one who's forgotten that fateful day in Lakeridge Park. The entire world has no memory of it, with the exception of Diane and three other people: Michael Edwards-Diane's estranged husband and Adrian's father. Laura Carrillo-Adrian's teacher, who loved him almost as much as his parents did. Milton Weisman-The agnostic, sixty-eight-year-old widower and alcoholic who lost control of the car that killed Adrian in Lakeridge Park. Over the next six days, these four people must struggle to understand what Adrian's return to the living means, and why God Himself would choose them, and them alone, to play witness to it. In the end, all will learn that God's mercy knows no limits-but its permanence comes at a price.

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Good Man Gone Bad

An Aaron Gunner Mystery

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An Aaron Gunner Mystery

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When Last Seen Alive

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All the Lucky Ones Are Dead

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All the Lucky Ones Are Dead

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DIVInvestigating the alleged suicide of a hip-hop star, Gunner uncovers a murder/divDIV/divDIVCarlton Elbridge, better known as C. E. Digga Jones, was too nice for gangsta rap. When he allegedly shot himself, he had millions in the bank, his face on the cover of Time magazine, and a nation of fanatics to mourn his death. He was found in a locked room, gun in his hand and bullet in his brain, and the police assumed it was suicide. Only the rapper’s father thinks otherwise./divDIV /divDIVSuspecting that his son was killed as the result of a hip-hop feud, Carlton’s father hires private detective Aaron Gunner to investigate the death. As Gunner tries to juggle the case with security work for a conservative black talk-show host, he learns that for some in the hip-hop world, the thug life is much more than an act./div

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1453252967

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Fear of the Dark

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Bad News Travels Fast

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Bad News Travels Fast

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Retirees Dottie and Joe Loudermilk, who cruise the land in a trailer home, hit Washington, D.C., to visit their son Eddie in this humorous second entry in the series after @Going Nowhere Fast.^

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Assume Nothing

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Assume Nothing

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The new novel from the critically acclaimed and award-winning author - When Joe Reddick and his family are threatened in their LA home by a masked, knife-wielding intruder, it means serious trouble for a gang of desperate criminals. The threat sends Joe Reddick over the edge. He's lived the nightmare of losing a family to a crazed killer once, and he's not going to let it happen again. After sending his wife and son to safety, he goes to war, determined to kill those responsible. Soon Reddick's living nightmare will finally be over. One way or the other . . .

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It's Not a Pretty Sight

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You Can Die Trying

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You Can Die Trying

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DIVGunner attempts to set the record straight for a dead police officer with a racist past/divDIV/divDIVNo one in South Central is surprised when Jack McGovern, a brutally racist cop, is accused of gunning down a black teenager in cold blood. But they are shocked when the LAPD actually responds to the charges, firing McGovern and leaving him without badge, pension, or pride. Eight months later, a thief breaks into a stereo store and encounters the disgraced cop, now a night security guard. McGovern draws his gun and, to the thief’s surprise, shoots himself in the head./divDIV /divDIVFew mourn the suicide, but one citizen is unsettled. A witness to the shooting that ended McGovern’s career, Mitchell Flowers knows the cop wasn’t lying when he said the teenager had fired first. Flowers hires private detective Aaron Gunner to clear the dead cop’s name—pitting Gunner against every civilian in South Central. Soon Gunner tugs on a chain of police corruption that stretches all the way to the top of the LAPD./div

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Going Nowhere Fast

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Not Long for This World

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Not Long for This World

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DIVA lawyer hires Gunner to help her prove that her gangland client is not a killer/divDIV/divDIVDarrel Lovejoy doesn’t owe South Central anything. By all accounts, he is lucky to escape this desperate corner of Los Angeles, to go to college and graduate into a well-paid advertising job. But something compels him to return. He dives into social work, attempting to mediate between the gangs which have brought hell to the streets he grew up on, and he makes slow but steady progress up until the day a shotgun blast cuts him down./divDIV /divDIVAfter an unusually forthcoming witness swears she saw a car of Imperial Blues kill Lovejoy, the police arrest Blue soldier Toby Mills. Suspecting a frame-up, Toby’s lawyer hires private detective Aaron Gunner to vet the woman’s story. To find out why South Central’s favorite son had to die, Gunner will turn gangland upside down./div

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Cemetery Road

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Firecracker

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Firecracker

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Eight months ago, knockout PR exec Reece "Firecracker" Germaine spent a wild weekend in Las Vegas with Arizona Cardinals football superstar Raygene Price. It was fun, but now Reece is pregnant with Raygene's baby and he's refusing to support her. Fortunately, Reece has a Plan B: the $25,000 Raygene gave her in Vegas to bet on the 50-1 underdog Arizona Cardinals to win the upcoming Super Bowl. So she heads to Vegas with a betting slip worth a potential $1.25 million, unaware that hot on her tail is one of Raygene's psychotic homeboys and a cool troubleshooter that Raygene's agent has hired to keep his star client out of trouble. Now Sin City is about to find out what the word "action" really means"--Publisher's description.

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