Gar Anthony Haywood
Gar Anthony Haywood is the author of 10 crime novels and two pseudonymously written stand-alone thrillers. Haywood’s first Gunner mystery, Fear of the Dark, won the Private Eye Writers of America’s Shamus award for Best First Novel in 1989. In the summer of 2000, Fear of the Dark was also included among 200 books Vibe magazine identified as essential reading. His sixth Gunner novel, All the Lucky Ones are Dead, made the Los Angeles Times’ bestseller list, and was subsequently named one of the year’s Ten Best mysteries by Booklist.
Man Eater, written under the pseudonym Ray Shannon, received starred reviews from both Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly, who described it as “the best Elmore Leonard ripoff since Elmore Leonard.” His second novel under the Shannon name, Firecracker, was hailed by the Chicago Sun-Times as “a machine-gun paced, witty romp of a thriller.”
Cemetery Road came out in February 2010.
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