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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.
Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building up his reputation in the New York investigative scene. His seemingly infallible instinct and inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when Phillip Worry comes knocking.
Phillip "Catfish" Worry is a 92-year-old Mississippi bluesman who needs Leonid's help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a wealthy heiress and her corrupt father. Unsurprisingly, the opportunity to do a simple favor while shocking the prevailing elite is too much for Leonid to resist.
But when a famed and feared assassin puts a hit on Catfish, Leonid has no choice but to confront the ghost of his own felonious past. Working to protect his client and his own family, Leonid must reach the heiress on the eve of her wedding before her powerful father kills those who hold their family's secret.
Joined by a team of young and tough aspiring investigators, Leonid must gain the trust of wary socialites, outsmart vengeful thugs, and, above all, serve the truth -- no matter the cost.
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"Watching McGill coolly deploy the physical and intellectual skills he'd acquired in his previous life as an underworld "fixer" provides the principal pleasure of this installment, along with Mosley's own way of making prose sound like a tender, funny blues ballad...Mosley delivers enough good stuff to let you know a master's at work."
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“An absorbing noir beauty of a tale.”
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“A slim volume with the feel of a fable and the concision of a blues scale.”
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“A tight and quietly subversive tale…that packs a hard tight punch. You won’t see it coming, but you’ll know when it lands.”
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“Dion Graham offers an amazing performance…Graham delivers Mosley’s noir mystery with his usual excellence, giving each character an individual personality…With his mastery of dialects and tone, Graham delivers suspense best listened to. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“Gritty…The plot soars…Few mystery writers can examine issues of race—how it divides and binds people—as clearly and unflinchingly as Walter Mosley.”
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"[Mosley] wanders through a few underworlds of the New York City crime category, always a treat for readers, and one that packs a moral punch.”
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“Mosley delivers enough good stuff to let you know a master’s at work.”
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“Spieled in a powerful, streamlined voice, this wrenching American noir will stick with readers long after the final page.”
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This gifted raconteur of the African American experience has produced an absorbing noir beauty of a tale.
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A slim volume with the feel of a fable and the concision of a blues scale. Minor characters have marvelous names-Archibald Lawless, Dido Kazz, Mozelle Tot-and move with ageless grace. 'I felt a kinship to all of them,' Leonid thinks. So do we.
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Good to have you back, Leonid.
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The charms of this short novel lie in Mosley's memorable characters, his portrayal of the world McGill inhabits and the author's uniquely lyrical writing style.
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A tight and quietly subversive tale about family, class, privilege, and race (plus honor, of all things) that packs a hard tight punch. You won't see it coming, but you'll know when it lands.
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[Mosley] wanders through a few underworlds of the New York City crime category, always a treat for readers, and one that packs a moral punch. Mosley is, quite simply, an icon of detective fiction, and with each new novel in the McGill series he's making New York noir his own just as he did with Los Angeles.
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Spieled in a powerful, streamlined voice, this wrenching American noir will stick with readers long after the final page.
— Booklist
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A Washington Post Pick of New Thrillers
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An AudioFile Editors’ Pick of the Month
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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A Literary Hub Pick of the Week
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A Booklist Pick of Best Audiobooks of the Month
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A Vogue Pick of Best New Books by Black Authors
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Finalist for the 2021 Audie Award for Best Mystery Narration
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An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
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About Walter Mosley
Leon Nixon is a professional actor, playwright, and filmmaker. A Los Angeles native, he has performed in short films, web series, and on stage in dramatic and comedic roles. He is also an improviser and part of the group that appears in the Guinness Book of World Records for Longest Continuous Improv Show.
About Dion Graham
Dion Graham is an award-winning narrator named a “Golden Voice” by AudioFile magazine. He has been a recipient of the prestigious Audie Award numerous times, as well as Earphones Awards, the Publishers Weekly Listen Up Awards, IBPA Ben Franklin Awards, and the ALA Odyssey Award. He was nominated in 2015 for a Voice Arts Award for Outstanding Narration. He is also a critically acclaimed actor who has performed on Broadway, off Broadway, internationally, in films, and in several hit television series. He is a graduate of Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, with an MFA degree in acting.