This is the second instalment in the Trevor Finnegan series, after the fallout of corruption, a leaked video and a near fatal attack means that Trevor Aka Finn is now a private investigator. To learn more about Aaron Philip Clark, visit and follow him on social media (Twitter). BLUE LIKE ME, the second Trevor Finnegan novel, will be published on November 8, 2022, by Thomas & Mercer. The novel won the 2021 Book Pipeline Adaptation Award and was nominated for an International Thriller Writers Award in 2022. Trevor “Finn” Finnegan, a Black LAPD detective, tasked with investigating the murder of a young Black academy recruit amid protests against police brutality and calls for reform.

During this time, Clark wrote UNDER COLOR OF LAW, a police thriller inspired by his experiences with the LAPD. Both novels featured the morally plagued and emotionally damaged ex-con, Paul Little, as he fought to escape the perils of Philadelphia street culture and return to his deceased grandfather’s farm in North Carolina.Īfter leaving his career in law enforcement, Clark returned to higher education and continued his work as an educator teaching college-level English, Creative Writing, and Humanities. Clark followed THE SCIENCE OF PAUL with A HEALTHY FEAR OF MAN (Snubnose Press), published the following year. The debut was met with interest and acclaim. His first novel, THE SCIENCE OF PAUL: A Novel of Crime (New Pulp Press), was published in 2011. He is a novelist, screenwriter, and former Los Angeles Police Department recruit. 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.Īaron Philip Clark is a native of Los Angeles, CA. Finn’s reluctance ends when his dear “uncle,” an ex-LAPD detective, is murdered, and it might be connected to Riley’s death. Maybe she’s still a good cop-but maybe she’s not.

Munoz needs Finn to help find Riley’s killer, but doing so could blow his cover. In an instant, Finn goes from private eye to eyewitness. Things take a deadly turn when an unknown assailant executes Riley and wounds Munoz. While on surveillance in Venice Beach, Finn tails two potentially dirty cops: Detective Martin Riley and Finn’s ex-partner, Detective Sally Munoz. When former detective Trevor “Finn” Finnegan became a PI, he adopted a new mandate: catch the LAPD’s worst in the act.

A 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.

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