Praise for Bad Night Is Falling " Bad Night Is Falling is that rare detective story with a sense of history, of the way the past shapes--and mis-shapes--the present." -- LA Weekly "A first-rate example of contemporary noir fiction." -- The Sunday Telegraph "Monk's third case provides enough gritty gossip, glistering action, and trash talk to make real-life LA seem comparatively wholesome." -- Kirkus Reviews "The third Monk novel is solid hard-boiled fare that recalls the fatalistic determination of Ross McDonald's Lew Archer." --Booklist "Phillips uses his social backdrop [in Bad Night Is Falling ] not for itself or for psychological character study, but to give depth and relevance to a tight thriller." -- The List (Scotland) "Makes you realize that politics isn't just the domain of boring old men--whether you want it or not, inevitably it affects us all." -- Rap Pages " Bad Night Is Falling will sate the palates of faithful Ivan Monk fans, while offering an exciting, insightful trek through the mean streets of the City of Angels, often at its worst." --Wave Entertainment Praise for the Ivan Monk books "In the tradition of Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op, Ivan Monk takes on a corrupt world .

He makes us feel that the war he's wagering is for our own salvation." --Walter Mosley, creator of the Easy Rawlins series "A landmark novel set during and after the 1992 L.A. riots." -- The New York Times Book Review "A crime classic." -- The Washington Post "Tough, smart, and unabashedly political. Monk is (to paraphrase basketball star Charles Barkley) a P.I.

for the '90s, and Violent Spring is Phillips's perfect intro to him." --Gar Anthony Haywood, author of the Aaron Gunner mysteries.