IN 1992, LOS ANGELES BURNED unearthed during a ground-breaking ceremony at the infamous intersection of Florence and Normandie. Against a backdrop of increasing racial tensions, black private eye Ivan Monk searches for the killer. Then another body turns up. And while the FBI and the Rolling Dalt...
P.I. Ivan Monk races to clear his name in a vicious firebombing as racial tension and gang violence explode on the streets of L.A.
Then a jingle and he was in. Cheap-ass lock. I looked at the clock and it was 3:36 a.m. He turned on the light and began his search. I watched him, hoping he wouldn’t find it. “Let me get that money and I’ll pay you back in the morning,” he said. “No. I need it for lunch.” “I’ll give it back to y...
The note stated the Galaxy needed a ring job. He’d crossed the highway and phoned him back from the Tornado Lounge and Game Parlor after laying a ten on the proprietor. What the ex-cop told him had made his heart thud against his breast bone and he refused the beer the lounge’s owner offered as a...
She could be standing at the next bus stop, or long gone out of my life. II should listen to Nana and head back to work. But instead I drive around Santa Ana looking for a little girl in the rain. The few who are out in this weather are huddled under bus stops next to their mothers or grandmother...
Outspoken Interview “Going to Tobago for this tourney next month.” “You ever run into Wakefield Nakano at these events?” “Funny you should ask, I have a time or two. He’s not a bad shredder.” “You two hang?” “Not really. Why?” “Can’t find out the answers if I don’t ask.” He chuckled deep in his t...
1-5 Summer Brenner ISBN: 978-1-60486-019-1 256 pages $15.95 A novel of crime, transport, and sex, I-5 tells the bleak and brutal story of Anya and her journey north from Los Angeles to Oakland on the interstate that bisects the Central Valley of California. Anya is the victim of a deep deception....