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Ivan Monk

Series · 4 books

By Gary Phillips

When three members of a Mexican family, including a little girl, are killed in a vicious firebombing, private eye Ivan Monk is called in by the tenants' security force to find out is responsible and uncovers a complex web of gang violence, corruption, racism, and murder.

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Author

Gary Phillips

Author · 26 books

GARY PHILLIPS has been a community activist, labor organizer and delivered dog cages. He’s published various novels, comics, short stories and edited several anthologies including South Central Noir and the Anthony award-winning The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir. Violent Spring, first published in 1994 was named in 2020 one of the essential crime novels of Los Angeles. He was also a writer/co-producer on FX’s Snowfall (streaming on Hulu), about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central where he grew up. Recent novels include One-Shot Harry and Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem. He lives with his family in the wilds of Los Angeles.