Ex-convict Paul Little has just walked out on the only woman who has ever loved him to return to a life of crime in Philadelphia. But when Paul gets involved with a petty thug who is later murdered, he finds himself pinned between the volatile gangster accused of the crime and the straight-laced detective who put Paul away years ago. Realizing the city may be the death of him, Paul looks to escape to North Carolina and live alone on a farm left to him by his recently deceased grandfather. Can Paul survive long enough to make it to the succor of the farm? Will he inevitably return to a life behind bars? Or is it his fate to die a victim in Philadelphia? The Science of Paul is a stunning tale of redemption and self-exploration, as one man navigates the precariousness of the streets and the inner workings of his mind.

The Science of Paul: A Novel of Crime

Clark, Aaron Philip

Literature & Fiction

New Pulp Press

The murder of a police recruit pins a black LAPD detective in a deadly web where race, corruption, violence, and cover-ups intersect in this relevant, razor-sharp novel of suspense. 
Black rookie cop Trevor "Finn" Finnegan aspires to become a top-ranking officer in the Los Angeles Police Department and fix a broken department. A fast-track promotion to detective in the coveted Robbery-Homicide Division puts him closer to achieving his goal. 
Four years later, calls for police accountability rule the headlines. The city is teeming with protests for racial justice. When the body of a murdered black academy recruit is found in the Angeles National Forest, Finn is tasked to investigate. 
As pressure mounts to solve the crime and avoid a PR nightmare, Finn scours the underbelly of a volatile city where power, violence, and race intersect. But it's Finn's past experience as a beat cop that may hold the key to solving the recruit's murder. The price? The end of Finn's career...or his life.

Under Color of Law (Trevor Finnegan, 1)

United States

Thorndike Press

Gary Phillips’ Nate Hollis leaps from the comic page to his first complete prose collection. Authors Juliet Blackwell, Bobby Nash, Aaron Philip Clark, and Derrick Ferguson join Phillips to create six double barreled tales of mystery and action. The streets are mean, but they don’t hold a stick of dynamite to Hollis, P.I. From creator Gary Phillips and Pro Se Productions. “PI Nate Hollis originally sprang from the rich imagination of LA-based writer Gary Phillips, but he’s so real and tactile he could climb off the page and buy you a bourbon. Now, four other authors are getting a piece of Nate, too, and this latest collection of Nate stories is wonderful. This is contemporary noir at its best, offering all the familiar pleasures of the genre, but giving them a modern makeover. Yes, this is a violent world that Nate inhabits, but he steers a true and moral course through the layers of deception, skullduggery and sometimes worse that make these stories such high-density entertainment. Nate’s a great character and these stories do him justice and more. “ T. Jefferson Parker Author of “The Famous and the Dead”

Gary Phillips' Hollis P.I.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Phillips, Gary

Blackwell, Juliet

Nash, Bobby

Ferguson, Derrick

Mystery

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Product Description 
The murder of a police recruit pins a black LAPD detective in a deadly web where race, corruption, violence, and cover-ups intersect in this relevant, razor-sharp novel of suspense. 
Black rookie cop Trevor “Finn” Finnegan aspires to become a top-ranking officer in the Los Angeles Police Department and fix a broken department. A fast-track promotion to detective in the coveted Robbery-Homicide Division puts him closer to achieving his goal. 
Four years later, calls for police accountability rule the headlines. The city is teeming with protests for racial justice. When the body of a murdered black academy recruit is found in the Angeles National Forest, Finn is tasked to investigate. 
As pressure mounts to solve the crime and avoid a PR nightmare, Finn scours the underbelly of a volatile city where power, violence, and race intersect. But it’s Finn’s past experience as a beat cop that may hold the key to solving the recruit’s murder. The price? The end of Finn’s career…or his life. 
 Review 
“Harrowing evidence for Spike Lee’s famous claim that everything that happens in America is about race.” 
―Kirkus Reviews\n“Clark’s ripped-from-the-headlines police procedural should make readers uncomfortable. It’s a frightening, tragic tale.” 
―Library Journal (starred review)\n“This is a smart, suspenseful police procedural with a timely plot.” 
―Publishers Weekly\n“An absolutely riveting book that belongs in the pantheon of L.A. crime novels alongside Connelly’s 
The Black Echo, Mosley’s 
Devil in a Blue Dress, and Ellroy’s 
The Black Dahlia. 
Under Color of Law is a landmine placed at the intersection of law enforcement, race, media, and politics by an author who clearly knows the volatile territory. I cannot wait to read the next Trevor Finnegan book.” 
―Jason Pinter, bestselling author of Hide Away\n“Aaron Philip Clark’s 
Under Color of Law is extraordinary. It’s a police procedural with a conscience, as invested in examining how and why American law enforcement so often fails to uphold its mandate to protect and serve all people equally as it is in telling a compelling story. You’ll read on for the mystery at its core, but you’ll remember 
Under Color of Law long after the read for the things it will teach you about the challenges of being a good cop of color in the age of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.” 
―Gar Anthony Haywood, Shamus and Anthony Award–winning author of In Things Unseen\n“Aaron Phillip Clark’s 
Under Color of Law is a dizzying, breathtaking ride through the City of Angels, offering an unflinching and compelling look at the complexities of being a Black man wearing a detective’s badge. An awesome L.A. story and a helluva page-turner!” 
―Rachel Howzell Hall, author of the Los Angeles Book Prize–nominated And Now She’s Gone\n“Not since Joseph Wambaugh’s 
New Centurions has a book about the LAPD arrived with the power, strength, and timeliness of 
Under Color of Law. This is a thriller, all right, but it’s also the portrait of a city and its institutions crumbling from within. A dynamic and important work and, still, a hell of a mystery.” 
―Tod Goldberg, New York Times bestselling author of Gangsterland\n“Rugged, real, and timely, the authenticity crackles on each page in this unputdownable novel from Mr. Clark.” 
―Gary Phillips, author of Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem\n“ 
Under Color of Law does what great crime fiction should: it kept me turning pages while I was reading it and kept me thinking about it when I wasn’t. Clark establishes himself as heir apparent to Michael Connelly in L.A. police novels.” 
―Eric Beetner, author of All The Way Down 
 About the Author 
Aaron Philip Clark is a novelist and screenwriter from Los Angeles. In addition to his writing career, he has worked in the film industry and in law enforcement. For more information, visit www.aaronphilipclark.com.

Under Color of Law (Trevor Finnegan)

Thomas & Mercer

Review\n“Clark balances the personal and the professional challenges adroitly as he further develops his lead. S.A. Cosby fans will hope for a long series run.” ―Publishers Weekly\n“Blue Like Me is a gritty, dark, and gripping crime thriller featuring flawed characters, complex relationships, and facing your past head-on. Aaron Philip Clark has delivered a second straight compelling novel in this series that will appeal to fans of Michael Connelly and Raymond Chandler.” ―Best Thriller Books\n“Blue Like Me sees former LAPD detective Trevor Finnegan on the other side of law enforcement, as a private investigator with a knack for busting crooked cops. Clark takes us on a propulsive, twisting tour of greater Los Angeles and explores the abyss that opens under the confluence of money, power, and police corruption.” ―Steph Cha, Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning author of Your House Will Pay: A Novel and the Juniper Song Mysteries\n“Blue Like Me is as real as it gets, and there’s no mystery as to why―the author clearly knows L.A. Aaron Philip Clark’s background in law enforcement, coupled with his work as a screenwriter, shines through in his finely crafted protagonist, Trevor ‘Finn’ Finnegan, a former LAPD detective turned PI. The pages turn and the tension builds all the way up to this novel’s thrilling―and wonderfully heartfelt―conclusion. In a time of growing distrust for all levels of law enforcement, Trevor Finnegan is the hero our country so desperately needs.” ―Eli Cranor, author of Don’t Know Tough and Ozark Dogs\n“Aaron Philip Clark is a storyteller of immense talent, engaging the reader from the first to last page. Blue Like Me is crime fiction of epic human proportions. Mesmerizing, expansive, intriguing, and unforgettable.” ―Stephen Mack Jones, the August Snow series\nA brutal homicide sets an ex-cop and his former partner on the hunt for an enigmatic killer in a gripping thriller by the author of Under Color of Law. 
When former detective Trevor “Finn” Finnegan became a PI, he adopted a new mandate: catch the LAPD’s worst in the act. While on surveillance in Venice Beach, Finn tails two potentially dirty cops: Detective Martin Riley and Finn’s ex-partner, Detective Sally Munoz. Things take a deadly turn when an unknown assailant executes Riley and wounds Munoz. In an instant, Finn goes from private eye to eyewitness. 
Munoz needs Finn to help find Riley’s killer, but doing so could blow his cover. She’s an officer shaded by rumors. Maybe she’s still a good cop―but maybe she’s not. Finn’s reluctance ends when his dear “uncle,” an ex-LAPD detective, is murdered, and it might be connected to Riley’s death. 
To prevent more bloodshed and avoid becoming the next targets on the killer’s list, Finn and Munoz will have to bury their complicated past, trust each other, and come face-to-face with painful secrets that could destroy them both.

Blue Like Me (Trevor Finnegan)

Lucy Ramos is out for blood—she needs to kill a man, but she has no clue how. Lucy calls on the help of aged hit-man, Tito Garza—also known as El Perro of Pedro. Garza’s signature method of killing? Using dogs to maul his targets to death. Now, in his golden years, Garza lives a mundane life in San Pedro, a port town south of downtown Los Angeles. With a backpack full of cash, Lucy persuades Garza to help her murder her mother’s killer, Assistant District Attorney Victor Soto. Together, the forgotten hit-man hungry for a comeback and the girl whose life was shattered as a child set out to kill the man responsible. But killing Victor Soto may prove to be an impossible task. The newly elected Assistant District Attorney’s wealth and political clout keep him well-insulated. Lucy and Garza’s plan is further complicated when Lucy begins to develop feelings for Victor Soto’s son, Martin. With their romance threatening to derail the mission, Lucy fights to keep Martin out of Garza’s cross-hairs when his violent urges become more unpredictable. Will Lucy’s feelings for Martin jeopardize everything she’s worked for? Will Garza’s unchecked rage cause innocent people to die? Lucy Ramos and Tito Garza are furious, deadly, and driven by vengeance—but vengeance comes at a price.

The Furious Way

Shotgun Honey

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Ex-convict Paul Little has just walked out on the only woman who has ever loved him to return to a life of crime in Philadelphia. But when Paul gets involved with a petty thug who is later murdered, he finds himself pinned between the volatile gangster accused of the crime and the straight-laced detective who put Paul away years ago. Realizing the city may be the death of him, Paul looks to escape to North Carolina and live alone on a farm left to him by his recently deceased grandfather. Can Paul survive long enough to make it to the succor of the farm? Will he inevitably return to a life behind bars? Or is it his fate to die a victim in Philadelphia? The Science of Paul is a stunning tale of redemption and self-exploration, as one man navigates the precariousness of the streets and the inner workings of his mind. Praise for THE SCIENCE OF PAUL: “A finely-drawn character study of a man battling fate to escape the inevitable gravity of a life of crime. Reminiscent of the existential crime novels of Jean-Patrick Manchette. That we care so much about Paul is testament to Aaron Philip Clark’s skill.”—Eric Beetner, author of One Too Many Blows to the Head and Borrowed Trouble “Aaron Philip Clark’s The Science of Paul has all the makings of a modern noir classic. Noir in its purest form always reads like a punch to the gut and The Science of Paul delivers that kind of blow right from page one. ‘No apologies, no regrets’ should be this novel’s motto.”—Gar Anthony Haywood, author of Cemetery Road “The eponymous protagonist of Aaron Clarke’s scorching, gripping The Science of Paul is an ex-con, a booze hound, a haunted drifter. Deep in the heart of America’s south, which seems only just north of hell, he emotionlessly buries his grandfather and, with a beautiful woman in tow, drives off at full speed, slap-bang into the classic noir paradigm. This is a car wreck well worth risking your neck to see.”—Paul D. Brazill, author of Last Year’s Man “With the relentless moth-to-flame inevitability of classic noir, Aaron Philip Clark’s angry ex-con finds trouble on Philadelphia’s mean streets. Vivid characterization and a sharp eye for the fault lines in American society drive this impressive debut.”—Roger Smith, author of Wake-Up Dead and Mixed Blood “T.S. Eliot referred to it as tradition and individual talent, the manner in which new work at once honors, builds upon, and questions what has come before. Chester Himes, Richard Wright, James Baldwin—Aaron Philip Clark has been paying attention. “—James Sallis, author of Cypress Grove and Chester Himes: A Life

Blue Like Me (Trevor Finnegan, 2)

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The Science of Paul: A Novel of Crime

Under Color of Law (Trevor Finnegan, 1)

Gary Phillips' Hollis P.I.

Under Color of Law (Trevor Finnegan)

Blue Like Me (Trevor Finnegan)

The Furious Way

The Furious Way

Under Color of Law (Trevor Finnegan, 1)

The Science of Paul: A Novel of Crime

Blue Like Me (Trevor Finnegan, 2)