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Walter Mosley
From innovative bestselling novelist Mosley comes the return of the beloved Leonid McGill detective series featuring a morally ambiguous P.I. who solves crimes and whose victims are society’s most downtrodden.
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In the latest from "mystery master" Walter Mosley, a family member's terminal illness leads P.I. Joe King Oliver to the investigation of his life: tracking down his long-lost father, and…
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"Easy Rawlins's latest client sends him down a warren of memory and nostalgia, blinding him to reason and risk"--
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In this highly anticipated sequel from Edgar Award-winning "master of craft and narrative," Walter Mosley, Joe King Oliver is entangled in a dangerous case when he's asked to investigate whether…
Intergalactic visions, deadly threats, and explosive standoffs between mostly good and completely evil converge in a dystopian fantasy that could only be conceived by the inimitable Walter Mosley, one of…
The brand-new Easy Rawlins novel, from one of America's most celebrated and beloved crime writers.
In 1965, a mysterious beam of blue light descended from space, illuminating Northern California. This extraterrestrial beam possessed strange powers, causing those it touched to either die, go mad, or…
The citizenry of America struggles for survival in a dangerous, twisted future. In this critically acclaimed collection of stores, noir legend Walter Mosley takes his unique vision of American society…
The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley’s career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and writing. Conversations with Walter Mosley covers the…
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Jennifer Larson
A study of an award-winning author’s extensive corpus written across a broad range of genres
A convention-defying novel by bestselling writer Walter Mosley, John Woman recounts the transformation of an unassuming boy named Cornelius Jones, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black…
The second in the Fearless Jones series from the author of the Easy Rawlins crime thrillers.
In this latest installment of the Easy Rawlins series from beloved and bestselling author Walter Mosley, the L.A. private eye has his hands full with the investigation of a racially…
In the latest and most surprising novel in Mosley’s bestselling Leonid McGill series, Leonid finds himself caught between his sins of the past and an all-too-vivid present, in this gripping…
The New York Times bestselling author’s sizzling new novel pits Easy Rawlins against his greatest challenge ever–a terrifying murder during the Summer of Love.
Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley’s…
When Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a weapons manufacturer, is kidnapped from her dorm at UC Santa Barbara with demands to be met or ‘Rose Gold’ will die, the LAPD…
New York City-based private eye Leonid McGill finds himself in the unusual pickle of trying to balance his cases with his chaotic personal life –
Tempest Landry, an everyman African American, is accidentally killed by a cop. He is denied access to heaven because of what he considers a few minor transgressions. Through the street-smart…
From the award-winning Walter Mosley comes a dazzling novel of ideas about the sexual and intellectual coming-of-age of an unusual man who goes by the name Woman
A masterful collection of stories that showcases one of the country’s most beloved and acclaimed writers–award-winning author, Walter Mosley
Mosley returns with a character his fans know and love–Socrates Fortlow, the widely praised hero of Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, starring in a brilliant new book that explores life outside…
Argues that though slavery was outlawed, all of us are in figurative chains of one kind or another. This work examines the social and economic injustices that shackle the American…
Black detective Easy Rawlins aids his dangerous-but-loyal friend Mouse, accused of killing several bar girls in 1958 Los Angeles.
When a boxer-turned-revolutionary kidnaps the daughter of a weapons manufacturer and threatens to publicly execute her in exchange for a lucrative ransom, Easy Rawlins is tapped by the LAPD to…
From the author of Devil in a Blue Dress comes the most powerful and poetic novel about black life in America since Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (Digby Diehl, Playboy). RL’s…
Easy Rawlins is back and cruising the hippified streets of the Sunset Strip circa 1967, in search of a young black man who has gone missing–and maybe of his own…
In this scorching, mournful, often explicit, and never less than moving literary novel by the famed creator of the ‘Easy Rawlins’ series, Debbie Dare, a black porn queen, has to…
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Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science…
When New York private eye Leonid McGill is hired to check up on a vulnerable young woman, all he discovers is a bloody crime scene–and the woman gone missing. His…
Following his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, award-winning author Walter Mosley delivers an eloquent treatise on the craft of fiction writing–part writing guide, part study of…
Walter Mosley’s infamous detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new mystery to solve on the sun-soaked streets of Southern California
The Silver Box is the most destructive and powerful entity in the universe. lts former master, a member of an alien race known as the Laz, is desperate to control…
Mosley returns to mysteries at last with his most engaging hero since Easy Rawlins. When Paris Minton meets a beautiful new woman, before he knows it he has been beaten…
A monograph on Untopia -neither capitalism nor socialism, but a practical combination of the two-by the bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins series
Based on the novel ‘The tempest tales’ by Walter Mosley –P. [3].
From the MASK NOIR series, a crime novel set in 1964 in which high school janitor Easy Rawlins is seduced by a teacher with a dog and a story about…
After ten years, the street philosopher Socrates Fortlow returns in a major new novel by best-selling author Walter Mosley.
Now an independent operative in Watts, Easy Rawlin is caught in a crunch between a vengeful IRS agent in search of his cash and an obsessed FBI man in search…
Easy Rawlin’s search for a stunning beauty takes him into America’s racial dilemmas of the early ‘60s and the mysteries of the human character.
1964: Easy has given up the street life and has taken on a job as a supervising custodian at Sojourner Truth High School. But his newly found carefree lifestyle is…
