L.A. Burning
COMING FEBRUARY 8, 2022
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STARRED REVIEW
"Cody Bonner, the vulnerable, tough-minded protagonist of this stunning thriller from Taylor (the Michael Cassidy series writing as David C. Taylor), rejected the decorative social role intended for her as a movie star’s daughter and instead slid into addiction and crime as a teen. After serving six years in prison for a bank robbery, she’s now intent on solving the murder of her identical twin, Julie, a lawyer whose body was found on a Malibu beach two years earlier. While she’s gathering information from her high school friends who are now showbiz execs, her attention is drawn to Harry Groban, her mother’s powerful agent, who has allegedly sexually abused young women. When she learns that Julie had been investigating Groban, she begins feverishly planning her revenge. But she hasn’t been paying enough attention to a determined LAPD lieutenant, who’s out to nail her for the bank robberies she got away with. As the action builds relentlessly to an apocalyptic conclusion in the heart of a Southern California wildfire, Taylor reveals how complex human motivation can be. He’s upped his game with this frightening, exciting eye-opener. “
Agent: Lisa Gallagher, DeFiore and Co. (Feb.)
“L.A. Burning is a great ride, a blast of adrenaline, a lightning-paced insider's tour of the movie business with a memorable heroine in the driver's seat. Cody Bonner is a true original--we're rooting for her from page one, and she holds us in suspense to the very end. Excellent."
--JOSEPH FINDER, New York Times bestselling author of House on Fire.
"Some books stay with you long after you finish them, and I can’t get Cody Bonner’s voice out of my head. Tough, resourceful, and hell-bent on revenge for the death of her twin sister, she leads us on a thrilling yet heartbreaking journey through some of LA’s most glittering—and meanest—streets. Unforgettable, original, and highly recommended."
—HILARY DAVIDSON, bestselling author of Her Last Breath
Night Life
Winner of NERO WOLF AWARD — best novel
Finalist EDGAR AWARD - best novel
“Smart, capable, honest, and all cop, NYPD Detective Michael Cassidy is a cross between Jack Reacher and Philip Marlowe, only tougher.” — STEPHEN COONTS, New York Times best selling author of Pirate Alley.
“A heart-stopping bullet train of a novel with action and atmosphere to burn.” — DOUGLAS PRESTON, New York Times bestselling author of The Kraken Project.
Night Work
“Taylor’s masterly command of historical detail and his powerful delineations of characters both real and fictional should help this novel in contention for an Edgar Award.” Publishers Weekly
“Taylor’s tarnished hero works the dark New York streets rousting the liars, lowlifes, and killers who inevitably lead hime to the penthouses where power festers and grows. When it’s over, he has earned a stool at the noir bar, knocking back cold ones with Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.” — WILLIAM MARTIN, New York Times bestselling author.
Night Watch
Finalist -NERO WOLF AWARD
“David Taylor's writing is simply superb, perfectly capturing the noir atmosphere of the times, and sweeping the reader through the storyline until the final page. The originators of the genre, Hammett and Chandler, would have been well pleased.” — JIM NAPIER, Reviewing the Evidence
“David C. Taylor is fast becoming a go-to author—along side Max Allan Collins and James Ellroy—for crime fiction set in the post-war era. His Michael Cassidy, an NYPD detective in the Fifties whose background allows him to be familiar with high society as well as the street, proves to be a complex hero who finds himself caught up in his country’s shadow history. Both author and character have solidified their standings in the latest novel, Night Watch.” — MYSTERY PEOPLE
“For the powerful, crimes are those others commit.”
— Noam Chomsky
“I don’t like people who tip the table so that everything slides down to their end.”
— Michael Cassidy