GARY PHILLIPS has written novels and short stories featuring PI Ivan Monk. He writes on politics and pop culture for such as the Los Angeles Times, LA Watts Times, Rap Pages, the San Francisco Examiner Examiner, Freestyle and Black Scholar. He occasionally loses money at the poker table, watches his kids play sports, and finds that walking the dog is a fine excuse to light up a stogie.
Genres: Mystery, Western, Science Fiction, General Fiction, Horror
Series
Ivan Monk
1. Violent Spring (1994)
2. Perdition U.S.A. (1996)
3. Bad Night Is Falling (1998)
4. Only the Wicked (2000)
Monkology (2011)
1. Violent Spring (1994)
2. Perdition U.S.A. (1996)
3. Bad Night Is Falling (1998)
4. Only the Wicked (2000)
Monkology (2011)
Nate Hollis
1. Gary Phillips' Hollis P.I. (2014) (with Juliet Blackwell, Aaron Philip Clark, Derrick Ferguson and Bobby Nash)
2. Gary Phillips' Hollis For Hire (2018) (with Scott Adlerberg, Sarah M Chen, Phillip Drayer Duncan, Naomi Hirahara and Sara Paretsky)
1. Gary Phillips' Hollis P.I. (2014) (with Juliet Blackwell, Aaron Philip Clark, Derrick Ferguson and Bobby Nash)
2. Gary Phillips' Hollis For Hire (2018) (with Scott Adlerberg, Sarah M Chen, Phillip Drayer Duncan, Naomi Hirahara and Sara Paretsky)
Novels
The Jook (1999)
Bangers (2003)
Midnight Mover (2004)
Freedom's Flight (2009)
The Underbelly (2010)
The Warlord of Willow Ridge (2012)
The Anti-Gravity Steal (2014)
The Extractors (2014)
One-Shot Harry (2022)
Bangers (2003)
Midnight Mover (2004)
Freedom's Flight (2009)
The Underbelly (2010)
The Warlord of Willow Ridge (2012)
The Anti-Gravity Steal (2014)
The Extractors (2014)
One-Shot Harry (2022)
Collections
Never Safe (2006) (with Marilyn Meredith and Kris Neri)
Shaken (2011) (with Brett Battles, Cara Black, Dale Furutani, Timothy Hallinan, Naomi Hirahara, Wendy Hornsby, Debbi Mack, I J Parker and C J West)
Pulp Ink (2011) (with Eric Beetner, Reed Farrel Coleman, Hilary Davidson, Matthew C Funk, Richard Godwin, Allan Guthrie and Chris Holm)
Treacherous (2012)
Astonishing Heroes (2015)
3 the Hard Way (2016)
The Adventures of the Bronze Buckaroo (2018) (with Frankie Y Bailey, Christopher Alan Chambers, Michael Gonzales, John Lutz, Percy Spurlark Parker and Robert J Randisi)
A Sampling of Sleuths (2023) (with Anne R Allen, Michelle Bennington, Kate Flora, Lise McClendon, Katy Munger, J M Poole, Sarah R Shaber, Connie Shelton and Susan Slater)
The Unvarnished Gary Phillips (2023)
Shaken (2011) (with Brett Battles, Cara Black, Dale Furutani, Timothy Hallinan, Naomi Hirahara, Wendy Hornsby, Debbi Mack, I J Parker and C J West)
Pulp Ink (2011) (with Eric Beetner, Reed Farrel Coleman, Hilary Davidson, Matthew C Funk, Richard Godwin, Allan Guthrie and Chris Holm)
Treacherous (2012)
Astonishing Heroes (2015)
3 the Hard Way (2016)
The Adventures of the Bronze Buckaroo (2018) (with Frankie Y Bailey, Christopher Alan Chambers, Michael Gonzales, John Lutz, Percy Spurlark Parker and Robert J Randisi)
A Sampling of Sleuths (2023) (with Anne R Allen, Michelle Bennington, Kate Flora, Lise McClendon, Katy Munger, J M Poole, Sarah R Shaber, Connie Shelton and Susan Slater)
The Unvarnished Gary Phillips (2023)
Graphic Novels
Angeltown: The Nate Hollis Investigations (2011)
The Rinse (2012)
Astonishing Heroes: Shades of Justice (2014)
The Rinse (2012)
Astonishing Heroes: Shades of Justice (2014)
Series contributed to
Akashic Drug Chronicles
The Cocaine Chronicles (2005) (with Jervey Tervalon)
The Drug Chronicles (2018) (with Joseph Mattson, Jonathan Santlofer, Jerry Stahl and Jervey Tervalon)
The Cocaine Chronicles (2005) (with Jervey Tervalon)
The Drug Chronicles (2018) (with Joseph Mattson, Jonathan Santlofer, Jerry Stahl and Jervey Tervalon)
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (with Pierce Askegren, Mike Baron, Rachel Caine, Mark Dawidziak, Tom DeFalco, P N Elrod, John Everson, Joe Gentile, Christopher Golden, Elizabeth Massie, John Ostrander, Robert J Randisi, James Reasoner and Richard Dean Starr)
The Night Stalker Casebook (2006)
The Night Stalker Casebook (2006)
Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal
1. Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal Volume 1 (2015) (with Derrick Ferguson, Mel Odom and Andrew Salmon)
5. Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal Volume 5 (2022) (with Thomas McNulty, Mel Odom and Michael Panush)
1. Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal Volume 1 (2015) (with Derrick Ferguson, Mel Odom and Andrew Salmon)
5. Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal Volume 5 (2022) (with Thomas McNulty, Mel Odom and Michael Panush)
Guns + Tacos
1. Tacos de Cazuela con Smith & Wesson (2019)
Guns + Tacos Vol. 1 (omnibus) (2020) (with Trey R Barker, Michael Bracken and Frank Zafiro)
1. Tacos de Cazuela con Smith & Wesson (2019)
Guns + Tacos Vol. 1 (omnibus) (2020) (with Trey R Barker, Michael Bracken and Frank Zafiro)
Anthologies edited
The Darker Mask (2008) (with Christopher Chambers)
Send My love and a Molotov Cocktail! (2011) (with Andrea Gibbons)
Scoundrels (2012)
Day of the Destroyers (2015)
Occupied Earth (2015) (with Richard Brewer)
44 Caliber Funk (2016) (with Robert J Randisi)
The Obama Inheritance (2017)
Culprits: The Stories of a Crime Gone Wrong (2018) (with Richard Brewer)
Black Pulp II (2019)
Stop the World (2020) (with Taffy Cannon, Kate Flora and Lise McClendon)
Jukes & Tonks (2021) (with Michael Bracken)
South Central Noir (2022)
Witnesses for the Dead (2022) (with Gar Anthony Haywood and Gary Philips)
Get Up Offa That Thing (2023)
Send My love and a Molotov Cocktail! (2011) (with Andrea Gibbons)
Scoundrels (2012)
Day of the Destroyers (2015)
Occupied Earth (2015) (with Richard Brewer)
44 Caliber Funk (2016) (with Robert J Randisi)
The Obama Inheritance (2017)
Culprits: The Stories of a Crime Gone Wrong (2018) (with Richard Brewer)
Black Pulp II (2019)
Stop the World (2020) (with Taffy Cannon, Kate Flora and Lise McClendon)
Jukes & Tonks (2021) (with Michael Bracken)
South Central Noir (2022)
Witnesses for the Dead (2022) (with Gar Anthony Haywood and Gary Philips)
Get Up Offa That Thing (2023)
Gary Phillips recommends

Land of Shadows (2014)
(Detective Elouise Norton, book 1)
Rachel Howzell Hall
"A hard-hitting tale of a modern, complex Los Angeles. Well-written and deftly paced... a story that stays with you after the last page is read."

Blood Trail (2018)
(John Jordan Mystery, book 17)
Michael Lister
"Michael Lister delivers the good like Tyson in his prime, hard, fast and beautiful kind of brutal."

Scavenger (2020)
(Dickie Cornish, book 1)
Christopher Chambers
"Literary cinema verite, Chambers delivers a sly, slick and twisty hardcore mystery well worth the read."

The Shadow People (2021)
Joe Clifford
"Joe Clifford invites you to take a gander at the distorted images reflected in the funhouse mirror, and witness what happens when those images take three-dimensional form."

Under Color of Law (2021)
(Trevor Finnegan, book 1)
Aaron Philip Clark
"Rugged, real, and timely, the authenticity crackles on each page in this unputdownable novel from Mr. Clark."
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