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The Long Fall: The First Leonid McGil...

Walter Mosley

The widely praised New York Times bestseller, and Mosley's first new series since his acclaimed Easy Rawlins novels... Leonid McGill is an ex-boxer and a hard drinker looking to clean up his act. He's an old-school P.I. working a Ne...

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Published: Feb 2010

A Red Death : Featuring an Original E...

Walter Mosley

IIt's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of 'the hurting business' and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. Spe...

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Published: Oct 2002

Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins M...

Walter Mosley

Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good mon...

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Published: Sep 2002

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

Walter Mosley

Having served twenty-seven violent years in prison, Socrates Fortlow finds a home in an abandoned building and takes a job in a supermarket before meeting a troubled Darryl, whom he attempts to save from a fate like his own. Reprint. ...

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Published: Jan 1998

Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Myster...

Walter Mosley

"The newest of the great fictional detectives" (Boston Globe) from the New York Times bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins novels. When New York private eye Leonid McGill is hired to check up on a vulnerable young woman, ...

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Published: Feb 2011

White Butterfly : Featuring an Origin...

Walter Mosley

The LAPD doesn't come knocking on Easy Rawlins' door until a white coed falls victim to the same serial killer who's been preying on black prostitutes. But once the color line is crossed, the police take an interest in the murders, le...

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Published: Oct 2002

Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential No...

Walter Mosley

“A frankly pornographic novel, and I mean that as a compliment.”—New York Times Book Review When Cordell Carmel catches his longtime girlfriend with another man, the act that he witnesses seems to dissolve all the bo...

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Published: Dec 2007

The Right Mistake: The Further Philos...

Walter Mosley

Living in south central L.A., Socrates Fortlow is a sixty-year-old ex-convict still strong enough to kill men with his bare hands. Filled with profound guilt about his own crimes and disheartened by the chaos of the streets, Socrates ...

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Published: Sep 2009

All I Did Was Shoot My Man: A Leonid ...

Walter Mosley

Zella Grisham never denied shooting her boyfriend. That's not why she did eight years of hard time on a sixteen-year sentence. It's that the shooting inadvertently led to charges of grand theft. Talk about bad luck. Leonid McGill has ...

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Published: Feb 2013

Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlins Novel...

Walter Mosley

When a man who fled the 1965 Watts riots is suspected of killing a woman in a nearby apartment building, Easy Rawlins begins a murder investigation and learns that the case has sobering racial origins that will result in changes for E...

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Published: Apr 2005

When the Thrill Is Gone: A Leonid McG...

Walter Mosley

Leonid McGill can't say no to the beautiful woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash and a story. She's married to a rich art collector. Now she fears for her life. Leonid knows better than to believe her, but he can't af...

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Published: Jan 2012

Gone Fishin': Featuring an Original E...

Walter Mosley

Gone Fishin' actually marks the first appearance of Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins, as well as his homicide-prone sidekick Raymond 'Mouse' Alexander. But the story takes place in 1939, when both protagonists are still living in Houston. This ...

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Published: Sep 2002

Cinnamon Kiss

Walter Mosley

It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. IIt's farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled, but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can earn ...

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Published: Aug 2008

Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore (Vintage...

Walter Mosley

Millions of men and (no doubt many) women have watched famed black porn queen Debbie Dare—she of the blond wig and blue contacts—"do it" on television and computer screens in every combination of partners and positions i...

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Published: Feb 2015

Six Easy Pieces: Easy Rawlins Stories...

Walter Mosley

Easy should be living a contented life, with steady work as senior head custodian of Sojourner Truth High School, and a loving family. But happiness is as elusive for Easy as smoke in shadows. Easy's the man folks seek out when they c...

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Published: Sep 2003

Diablerie

Walter Mosley

"[Mosley is] a fearless boundary pusher. His latest is a cold, dark vision…As Mosley ratchets up the tension, it's hard to look away—or stop reading."—San Diego Union-Tribune With the same erotic force as Killing Johnn...

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Published: Dec 2008

And Sometimes I Wonder About You: A L...

Walter Mosley

The welcome return of Leonid McGill, Walter Mosley's NYC-based private eye, his East Coast foil to his immortal L.A.-based detective Easy Rawlins. As the Boston Globe raved, "A poignantly real character, [McGill is] not only th...

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Published: Apr 2016

Blood Grove (Easy Rawlins, 15)

Walter Mosley

"Master of craft and narrative" Walter Mosley returns with this crowning achievement in the Easy Rawlins saga, in which the iconic detective's loyalties are tested on the sun-soaked streets of Southern Cal...

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Published: Feb 2022

Down the River unto the Sea

Walter Mosley

"Mosley writes with great power here about themes that have permeated his work: institutional racism, political corruption, and the ways that both of these issues affect not only society at large but also the inner lives of indiv...

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Published: Feb 2019

Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Novel (...

Walter Mosley

In Little Green, Walter Mosley's acclaimed detective Easy Rawlins returns from the brink of death to investigate the dark side of that haven for Los Angeles hippies, the Sunset Strip. He's soon back in top form, cruising the gloriousl...

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Published: Jan 2014

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

Walter Mosley

A major literary event-nothing short of a "tour de force" (New York Times) by the acclaimed and beloved author. Marooned in an apartment that overflows with mementos from the past, 91-year-old Ptolemy Grey is all but forgott...

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Published: Nov 2011

Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill)

Walter Mosley

Morally ambiguous P.I. Leonid McGill is back — and investigating crimes against society's most downtrodden — in this installment of the beloved detective series from an Edgar Award-winning and bestselling crime novelist....

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Published: Jan 2021

Black Betty : Featuring an Original E...

Walter Mosley

1961: For most black Americans, these were times of hope. For former P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were never meaner...or more deadly. Ordinarily, Easy would have thrown the two bills in the sleazy shamus' face -- the ...

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Published: Jul 1995

Fearless Jones (Fearless Jones Novels...

Walter Mosley

Meek bookshop owner Paris Minton gets mixed up with trouble in the form of Elana Love, a sexy woman who's being pursued by a murderous ex-con. Paris enlists the help of Fearless Jones in extricating himself from a dangerous bind that ...

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Published: Jun 2002

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Walter Mosley

A gripping YA fiction debut by bestselling author Walter Mosley. Walter Mosley is one of the best known writers in America. In his first book for young adults, Mosley deftly weaves historical and speculative fiction into a powerful na...

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Published: Nov 2006

Walkin' the Dog

Walter Mosley

Nine years after being released from prison, ex-convict Socrates Forlow is struggling to rebuild his life--with a girlfriend, a steady job, and a pet--but his efforts to maintain his principles and do the right thing is complicated wh...

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Published: Oct 2000

The Man in My Basement

Walter Mosley

The novel, written in adorned prose that allows the ideas to breathe, will hold readers rapt; it is Mosley's most philosophical novel to date, as he explores guilt, punishment, responsibility and redemption as individual and social co...

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Published: Feb 2005

A Little Yellow Dog: An Easy Rawlins ...

Walter Mosley

November 1963: Easy's settled into a steady gig as a school custodian. IIt's a quiet, simple existence -- but a few moments of ecstasy with a sexy teacher will change all that. When the lady vanishes, Easy's stuck with a couple of cor...

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Published: Jul 1997

Fortunate Son

Walter Mosley

In spite of remarkable differences, Eric and Tommy are as close as brothers. Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced by a seemingly endless supply of good fortune. Tommy is a lame black boy, cursed with health problems, yet he remains optimi...

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Published: Aug 2007

Bad Boy Brawly Brown

Walter Mosley

Easy Rawlins is out of the investigation business and as far away from crime as a black man can be in 1960s Los Angeles. But living around desperate men means life gets complicated sometimes. When an old friend gets in enough trouble ...

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Published: Aug 2008
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