Gil Reavill Books in Order

This travel guide explores Hollywood and the film industry's influence on Los Angeles. Essays, literary selections, color photographs, archival images, and maps accompany information about attractions, lodging, and dining for visitors interested in the area's history and character.

This guide explores Manhattan’s history, neighborhoods, culture, and daily life through local writing, photographs, and literary excerpts. Detailed maps and recommendations for dining, lodging, and sightseeing help visitors understand the island beyond its best-known landmarks.

Drawing on his work in adult entertainment and his perspective as a father, Gil Reavill examines sexual imagery in public culture. He argues for balancing freedom of expression with the wishes of people who want to avoid explicit material.

Gil Reavill follows the workers of Aftermath, a company that cleans scenes of homicide, suicide, and other traumatic deaths. He traces its founders' response to an unmet need and examines the experiences of employees, bereaved families, and investigators.

This true-crime history recounts the 1957 Apalachin gathering of Mafia leaders and its disruption by lawman Edgar Croswell. Reavill explores the mob conflicts surrounding the meeting and the subsequent struggle between Robert Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover over organized crime.

Detective Layla Remington investigates the shooting of retired movie chimpanzees at a sanctuary threatened by wildfire. When the lone survivor is removed from veterinary care and linked to violent attacks, an unusual inquiry becomes a far more dangerous mystery.

An earthquake exposes the concealed remains of a long-missing Hollywood actress, prompting Layla Remington to investigate. Removed from the official case, she pursues her own leads into powerful circles and a criminal underworld where the killer may still be active.

During a Los Angeles riot, an exhausted Layla Remington makes a potentially career-ending mistake and retreats to a familiar mansion. The setting recalls her investigation of a childhood friend's death ten years earlier and the disturbing secrets of his wealthy family.

Co-written with Nathan Handwerker's grandson Lloyd, this biography traces the immigrant founder of Nathan's Famous from poverty to a Coney Island business. It examines the family story behind the hot-dog enterprise and its place in the American dream.

New York detective Veronika Brand travels to Sweden seeking escape from a collapsing career and drug problem. A murder investigation draws her and a Sami lawyer into family rivalries, missing Roma girls, and secrets linking Stockholm to the country's northern regions.