It's Not a Pretty Sight: An Aaron Gunner Mystery - Hardcover
Book by Haywood, Gar Anthony
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Gar Anthony Haywood writes two series: a jovial one about an elderly couple called the Loudermilks, and a much tougher group of books starring a Los Angeles private eye named Aaron Gunner. You might want to start (or continue) your Gunner relationship with this harrowing, heartbreaking story. It begins with Gunner's former lover apparently being killed by her abusive husband, and goes on to become a journey through a modern urban purgatory. Nobody writes about the broken dreams of today's LA with as much anger or compassion as Haywood, such as in his description of a wrecked pay phone "hanging from its shredded cord like the victim of a lynching, which, in a way, it was. Stripped of both its receiver and transmitter, it was only a plastic shell now, just one more slice of inoperative blight for the people of South-Central to get used to."
About the Author:
Gar Anthony Haywood is the author of two highly acclaimed mystery series. His series featuring South Central Los Angeles private investigator Aaron Gunner debuted with the publication of Fear of the Dark, which won the St. Martin's Press/PWA Best Private Eye Novel Contest in 1987. The two succeeding novels in that series, Not Long For This World and You Can Die Trying, received wide praise. It's Not a Pretty Sight (G.P. Putnam's Sons; September 10, 1996) is the fourth book in the Gunner series. Haywood's second series features the comic Loudermilk family and includes the novels Going Nowhere Fast and Bad News Travels Fast.
Currently a writer for the FOX television series "New York Undercover," Haywood has also written for the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. He lives in Los Angeles.
Currently a writer for the FOX television series "New York Undercover," Haywood has also written for the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. He lives in Los Angeles.
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0786209674
- ISBN 13 9780786209675
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages406
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It's Not a Pretty Sight: An Aaron Gunner Mystery
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Thorndike Press, Farmington Hills, Michigan, U.S.A.
(1997)
ISBN 10: 0786209674
ISBN 13: 9780786209675
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