FICTION
Released: Jan. 24, 2012
"Overplotted even by Mosley's standards, with precious little chance to savor each scene and speaker before they're hustled offstage to make room for the next."
The release of a convicted killer who doesn't happen to be a thief offers another crack at redemption for impossibly compromised New York private eye Leonid McGill (When the Thrill Is Gone, 2011, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: March 8, 2011
"A book filled with sharp individual scenes and hard-headed aphorisms."
A client who isn't a client sends private eye Leonid McGill (
Known to Evil, 2010, etc.) on his latest whirligig tour of New York's dark side.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 11, 2010
"Borrowing from Faust, the Iliad and Gran Torino, Mosley (Known to Evil, 2010, etc.) unforgettably transforms Ptolemy's cacophony of memories into a powerful symphony that makes him "into many men from out of all the lives he had lived through the decades.""
An ancient man living in solitary squalor in Los Angeles is offered an experimental medicine that just might beat back his creeping dementia--and will almost certainly kill him in the process.
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FICTION
Released: March 23, 2010
"A rich collection of individual scenes and people as memorable as the tangled plot is forgettable."
An offer he can't refuse leads Leonid McGill (
The Long Fall, 2009, etc.) on a grim tour that takes him from New York's executive suites to its lowest dives.
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FICTION
Released: March 24, 2009
"Plotting has never been Mosley's strong point, but McGill, a red-diaper baby, ex-boxer and a man eternally at war with himself, may be his most compelling hero yet."
The creator of Easy Rawlins, Socrates Fortlow and Fearless Jones introduces a new detective struggling to live down his checkered past in present-day New York.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 13, 2008
Ex-con Socrates Fortlow, the conscience of South Central Los Angeles (
Walkin' the Dog, 1999, etc.), returns for another dozen interlinked adventures, most of them revolving around dialogues on tough or taboo subjects.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 19, 2005
"Lacks the searing intensity of Little Scarlet (2004), but still as rich and tightly wound as you'd expect from Mosley. "
1966. Watts has stopped burning, but it's no safer for Easy Rawlins, on the trail of some mysterious documents that leave death in their wake.
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FICTION
Released: July 5, 2004
"The real strength of Easy's narrative, though, is his unflinching recognition that in working with the police, he's crossing the same border that's driven his brothers and sisters to violence."
FICTION
Released: Jan. 5, 2004
In Mosley's boldly understated fable, an unemployed African-American agrees to rent space in his basement to a wealthy white businessman for two months.
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FICTION
Released: July 2, 2003
"Paris (Fearless Jones, 2001) ends by wrapping up a mystery with perhaps a dozen too many tangles, accepting himself as a killer, and guaranteeing that no matter how well he succeeds in his errands to the powerful and fearsome, he'll never get rich."
Inoffensive bookseller Paris Minton's friend Fearless Jones drags him from the safety of his shop into more trouble--big, big trouble--in 1955 Watts.
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FICTION
Released: July 1, 2002
"Helping his brothers only because nobody else will, he returns from his six-year sabbatical more complex and compelling than ever before: a hero for his time and ours."
In a rare slowing of his usual leaps forward in time, Mosley, who's chronicled the adventures of reluctant Watts detective Ezekiel Rawlins from 1948 (Devil in a Blue Dress, 1990) to 1963 (A Little Yellow Dog, 1996), edges forward only three months to tell the story of Easy's search for Brawly Brown, the hulking young man who ran away from his mother, Alva Torres, smack into trouble.
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2001
Even before sultry Elana Love walks into mild-mannered Paris Minton's life three months after his Watts bookstore opens, Mosley can't resist his signature scene: A pair of cops stroll into the shop determined to push Paris around just because he's a black man and it's 1954.
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