Violent Spring

Gary Phillips

Wildside Press LLC, May 31, 2004 - Fiction - 196 pages

IN 1992, LOS ANGELES BURNED Later as embers cooled, the body of a murdered Korean liquor store owner is unearthed during a ground-breaking ceremony at the infamous intersection of Florence and Normandie. Against a backdrop of increasing racial tensions, black private eye Ivan Monk searches for the killer. Then another body turns up. And while the FBI and the Rolling Daltons-the largest gang in the city-dog his trail, Monk questions whether there's more than simple murder happening. Questions that take him from the ghetto to the wealthy confines of the city's powerbrokers. Monk is propelled toward a conclusion that may foment another VIOLENT SPRING in the tarnished City of Angels.

Contents

• Section 1: 7
• Section 2: 9
• Section 3: 17
• Section 4: 26
• Section 5: 37
• Section 6: 42
• Section 7: 55
• Section 8: 72
• Section 9: 86
• Section 10: 92
• Section 11: 97
• Section 12: 102
• Section 13: 113
• Section 14: 131
• Section 15: 138
• Section 16: 165
• Section 17: 175
• Section 18: 177
• Section 19: 179
• Section 20: 181
• Section 21: 191
• Section 22: 192
• Section 23: 193
• Section 24: 195

About the author

Gary Phillips was raised in South Central L.A. and is the author of High Hand and Shooter's Point, both Martha Chainey mysteries from Dafina.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Violent Spring
• Author: Gary Phillips
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Wildside Press LLC, 2004
• ISBN: 1930997876, 9781930997875
• Length: 196 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General