Gar Anthony Haywood is an American author of

crime fiction Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, ...

. He was born in Los Angeles in 1954, and worked as a computer technician for over a decade before he started publishing novels. ''Fear of The Dark'' (1988) won the

Shamus Award The Shamus Award is awarded by the Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) for the best detective fiction ( P. I. = Private investigator) genre novels and short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one ...

for best first private investigator novel. It also spawned a long-running series that featured the protagonist Aaron Gunner. The Aaron Gunner books are

hardboiled Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction). The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence o ...

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. Haywood has also written numerous screenplays for television, including an episode of ''

New York Undercover ''New York Undercover'' is an American police drama that aired on the Fox television network from September 8, 1994, to February 11, 1999. The series starred Malik Yoba as Detective J.C. Williams and Michael DeLorenzo as Detective Eddie Torre ...

'' and the TV movie adaptation of '' Bad As I Wanna Be'', the autobiography of basketball player

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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.

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