Under Color of Law by Aaron Philip Clark6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Crime fiction makes a wonderful landscape for discussing issues of morality and justice while examining society’s ills. Why write a crime thriller?Īaron Clark: You could say I’m enamored by crime fiction and its possibilities. Johnnie Hobbs III: Let’s start from the top. ![]() I had a chance to talk with Aaron to discuss the process of the beginning stages of adapting a novel to a series. The novel was released and published by Thomas & Mercer in Oct 2021 and has garnered critical acclaim, most notably as the grand-prize recipient for the Book Pipeline 2021 adaptation contest and a nominee for the International Thriller Association’s Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original. Detective Trevor Finnegan navigates the intersections between race, corruption, and cover-ups within the LAPD with plenty of twists and turns. In many ways, Under Color of Law is a character study….Īaron Clark’s fourth novel, Under Color of Law, is an LA crime thriller about a black rookie detective investigating the murder of a black police academy recruit in the wake of police killings of unarmed black citizens. I wanted to explore themes of social justice, police abuses, race and identity, and the impacts of trauma. ![]()
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