Gar Anthony Haywood

Gar Anthony Haywood
Born1954 (age 69–70)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
GenreCrime fiction
Notable awardsShamus Award (1989)

Gar Anthony Haywood (born 1954) is an American author of crime fiction. He was born in Los Angeles in 1954, and worked as a computer technician for over a decade before he started publishing novels.[1]

Fear of The Dark (1988) won the Shamus Award for best first private investigator novel.[2] It also spawned a long-running series that featured the protagonist Aaron Gunner. The Aaron Gunner books are hardboiled detective fiction, inspired by Ross Macdonald's Los Angeles novels. Haywood has also written several standalone thrillers, as well as a pair of light, comic mysteries.[1]

Haywood has also written numerous screenplays for television, including an episode of New York Undercover and the TV movie adaptation of Bad As I Wanna Be, the autobiography of basketball player Dennis Rodman.[3]

Aaron Gunner mystery novels

  • Good Man Gone Bad (Prospect Park, 2019) is Heywood's seventh mystery novel, featuring Aaron Gunner, 60-year-old African-American private investigator.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Gar Anthony Haywood". Mysterious Press. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
  2. ^ "The Shamus Award". Thrilling Detective. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
  3. ^ "Gar Anthony Haywood". IMDB. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
  4. ^ "Mysteries: Death, Doubt and Doubling Down 'Good Man Gone Bad" is Gar Anthony Haywood's seventh novel—and best yet—to feature the 60-year-old African-American PI Aaron Gunner". wall Street Journal. 25 October 2019.
  5. ^ DeSilvia, Bruce (14 October 2019). "'Good Man Gone Bad' is dark, brooding tale". Associated Press.


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