Crossover Cover: The Cracked Earth

Jack Liffey, a private eye specializing in cases involving missing children, visits his fellow investigator Ivan Monk’s donut shop, hoping to obtain info on a Rastafarian man who beat him up. In a later novel, The Orange Curtain, Liffey meets an aging Philip Marlowe, thus bringing him into the CU. The Cracked Earth brings in Gary Phillips' P.I. Ivan Monk.