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Summary: This story could have come from yesterday's headlines
Review: Aaron Gunner fans will find this the BEST ever. You'll want to finish it in one sitting, every turn of the page brings new challenges and plot twists. There's a missing person, an adulterous politican, a radical group, murder, the FBI and South Central L.A.. Haywood has taken a disturbing commentary on black on black relations and wrapped it around a character that the reader will find believable, honest and courageous. Those of us who like detectives with character and courage will find bits of Walter Mosley's - Easy Rawlins, Sallis's - Lew Griffin and Parker's - Spenser sidekick Hawk, neatly packaged in Aaron Gunner.
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Summary: not quite Sallis or Mosely
Review: Aaron Gunner is a streetwise private eye working out of an office in Mickey Moore's Barber Shop in Los Angeles. He's already working for Connie Everson who wants him to find out who her City Councilman husband is having an affair with--she already knows about his white woman, but fears she has a black rival. Now, he's also hired to find Yolanda McCreary's brother, Elroy Covington. Elroy never returned home from the Million Man March. When last seen, he was in LA at the Stage Door Hotel and he had Gunner's card in his room. Looking for Elroy leads Gunner to Barber Jack Frerotte, a notorious razor blade wielding psychopath and then to the Defenders of the Bloodline, who are dedicated to ridding the African-American community of "Uncle Toms". As always, Haywood is stronger on setting, character & dialogue than on the actual mechanics of the mystery. While he doesn't measure up to James Sallis or Walter Mosely, it's still a fun series. GRADE: C
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Summary: All The Lucky Ones Are Dead
Review: Gar Anthony Haywood has done it again. As usual, he has two plots going at once and the reader has to figure out "who done it" for both of them. He doesn't have predictable endings.
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Summary: Not to be overlooked
Review: This is the first book by this author that I read and I was not disappointed. The charachters and the incidents were fairly realistic, likeable, and had real lives. What's more is that I did not figure out the book in the very first chapter.
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Summary: All The Lucky Ones Are Dead
Review: This was my first Aaron Gunner story, and it won't be my last. This book had the the P.I. tackling two mysteries at the same time. Looking for a disreputable writer missing for over 9 months and tailing a congressman in search of his indiscretions had Gunner at his wit's end, but each plot had it's own twists and turns, and there was no way to guess each ending. Believe me, I tried! It is so hard sometimes to settle down with a good mystery, because in order for the story to work, the detective must be familiar and accessable to the reader. With this P.I., it was no problem. If you are a fan of Walter Mosley's Easy Rollins or Valerie Wilson Wesley's Tamara Hayle, then this guy is for you. Good Work, Mr. Haywood!
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Summary: Jumping on the bandwagon!
Review: This was my first Aaron Gunner story, and it won't be my last. This book had the the P.I. tackling two mysteries at the same time. Looking for a disreputable writer missing for over 9 months and tailing a congressman in search of his indiscretions had Gunner at his wit's end, but each plot had it's own twists and turns, and there was no way to guess each ending. Believe me, I tried! It is so hard sometimes to settle down with a good mystery, because in order for the story to work, the detective must be familiar and accessable to the reader. With this P.I., it was no problem. If you are a fan of Walter Mosley's Easy Rollins or Valerie Wilson Wesley's Tamara Hayle, then this guy is for you. Good Work, Mr. Haywood!
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