Gary Phillips

Black private eye Ivan Monk investigates the murder of a Korean shop owner in the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles riots....

He began his life as a slave. During the Civil War he escaped and lived among the Indians in the Oklahoma Territories....

The Akashic Noir series’ forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Angeles’ most recognized neighborhoods....

Private eye Ivan Monk’s search for a killer lead to the unraveling of a far-reaching white supremacist conspiracy.

Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips’s riveting historical crime novel about an African American forensic photographer seeking justice for his jazz musician friend.

When private investigator Ivan Monk takes a case set in a public housing project, he finds himself facing the police and volatile gang members—and a murder charge.

Take a trip through the imaginations of 18 visionary writers as they explore the future of trucking in this new science fiction anthology! There's something for every genre fiction fan in this follow-up to the hit 18 Wheels of Horror: A Trailer Full of Trucking Terrors....

Day of the Destroyers is an all-original linked prose anthology - each story is part of a larger arc wherein Jimmie Flint, Secret Agent X-11 of the Intelligence Service Command, battles to prevent the seditionist Medusa Council from engineering a bloody coup overthrowing our democracy....

Private eye Ivan Monk takes on his most personal mystery to date—and chases answers deep into America’s haunted past.

Heroin has long been understood as the most "literary" of narcotics, and this collection will, for better and worse, have tremendous pop cultural appeal....

In the follow-up to One-Shot Harry, fearless crime photographer and occasional private eye Harry Ingram finds himself in the LAPD’s crosshairs after capturing damning evidence of police brutality....

Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem is the first in an exciting new retro, rollicking adventure series. This reimagined pulp novel follows the Doc Savage-style adventures of the first American to reach the North Pole - Matthew Henson....

Hardboiled writer Gary Phillips gathers his most thrilling, outlandish, and madcap pulp fiction in a 17-story collection that straddles the line between bizarro, Sci-Fi, noir, and Marvel Comics.

How does witnessing a crime change a person? This powerful collection of stories by a star-studded roster of contributors examines this very question....

Bangers takes listeners to the crime infested L.A. neighborhood of Venice Heights, where an elite team of cops struggles to maintain order....

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them....

High Hand introduces the unforgettable, six-foot tall Chainey (nobody calls her Martha), a former showgirl who transports under-the-table money for Las Vegas casinos....

Gary Phillips' Nate Hollis leaps from the comics to his first complete prose collection. Authors Juliet Blackwell, Bobby Nash, Aaron Philip Clark, and Derrick Ferguson join Phillips to create six double barreled tales of mystery and action....

Hard-bodied and street-wise former showgirl Martha Chainey, who first appeared in High Hand, gets caught in the neon madness of Las Vegas in this fresh mystery....

What if the aliens have been watching us, infiltrating us via human collaborators or even surgically altering themselves to look human? Listen to find out more....