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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1988
  • Latest Book:
    November 2020
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Full Series List in Order

An Aaron Gunner Mystery

1 - And Pray No One Eats You (Dec-1999)
2 - Fear of the Dark (Aug-1988)
3 - Not Long for This World (May-1990)
4 - You Can Die Trying (May-1993)
5 - It's Not a Pretty Sight (Sep-1996)
6 - When Last Seen Alive (Dec-1997)
7 - All the Lucky Ones Are Dead (Jan-2000)

Dottie & Jo Loudermilk

1 - Going Nowhere Fast (Jul-1994)
2 - Bad News Travels Fast (Jul-1995)

Book List in Order: 15 titles



  • Black private investigator Aaron Gunner, hired to find the white man who walked into the Acey Deuce bar in South Central Los Angeles to blow away the owner, J. T. Tennell and Buddy Dorris of the Brothers of Volition, a black activist group. Buddy's s...



  • L.A. private eye Aaron Gunner has familiar qualities: he's youngish, not very successful (his "office" is behind a barber shop), eyed askance by cops but appreciatively by pretty women, medium-boiled with a strong ethical sense. The hook is he's blac...



  • Eight months after racist cop Jack McGovern guns down 12-year-old liquor-store thief Lendell Washington and insists--despite the evidence--that the kid fired on him first, McGovern's remorseful suicide flushes out Mitchell Flowers, a cowed, guilty wi...



  • 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...



  • Gar Anthony Haywood's wildly acclaimed new mystery sends Joe and Dottie Loudermilk to Washington, D.C., where they make the mistake of visiting their radical pacifist son Eddie. For as long as Joe and Dottie can remember, they've been bailing their k...



  • "Aaron Gunner is an African-American private eye who investigates crimes in the kind of neighborhood where even the corner pay phone can suffer a brutal attack...This time he's after the killer of his ex-lover, Nina, who, after years of abuse by her ...



  • Having more clients than he can use isn't generally Aaron Gunner's problem, but it happens that the PI is already on a case when beautiful Yolanda McCreary appears on his doorstep to offer him a second one. Her brother, Elroy Covington, apparently ru...



  • Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...



  • L.A. private eye Aaron Gunner investigates a notorious rap artist's suicide while protecting a controversial radio personality. "The flash and funk of L.A. is vivid, and the cast of characters quirky and memorable," raved Publishers Weekly of last...








  • The new novel from a critically acclaimed and award-winning author - 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 reve...



  • Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre’s finest from the past year. Featuring “gritty tales told with panache,” this is a “must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories” (Booklist)....



  • 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 ...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 Pa...


Award-Winning Books by Gar Anthony Haywood

Fear of the Dark
1988 Shamus Award -- First P.I. Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gar Anthony Haywood has published 15 books.

Gar Anthony Haywood does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, In Things Unseen, was published in November 2020.

The first book by Gar Anthony Haywood, Fear of the Dark, was published in August 1988.

Yes. Gar Anthony Haywood has 2 series.