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“An absorbing noir beauty of a tale.”
— Washington Post
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“A slim volume with the feel of a fable and the concision of a blues scale.”
— Wall Street Journal
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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.”
— Mystery Scene Magazine
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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.”
— AudioFile
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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.”
— Associated Press
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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.”
— Literary Hub
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“Mosley delivers enough good stuff to let you know a master’s at work.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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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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This gifted raconteur of the African American experience has produced an absorbing noir beauty of a tale.
— Richard Lipez, The Washington Post
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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.
— Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal
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Good to have you back, Leonid.
— John Timpane, Philadelphia Inquirer
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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.
— Bruce DeSilva, Associated Press
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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.
— Kevin Burton Smith, Mystery Scene Magazine
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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.
— LitHub
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Spieled in a powerful, streamlined voice, this wrenching American noir will stick with readers long after the final page.
— Booklist