Leonid McGill is back, in the third-and most enthralling and ambitious-installment in Walter Mosley's latest New York Times- bestselling series. The economy has hit the private-investigator business hard, even for the detective designated as "a more than worthy successor to Philip Marlowe" (The Boston Globe) and "the perfect heir to Easy Rawlins" (Toronto Globe and Mail). Lately, Leonid McGill is getting job offers only from the criminals he's worked so hard to leave behind. Meanwhile, his life grows ever more complicated: his favorite stepson, Twill, drops out of school for mysteriously lucrative pursuits; his best friend, Gordo, is diagnosed with cancer and is living on Leonid's couch; his wife takes a new lover, infuriating the old one and endangering the McGill family; and Leonid's girlfriend, Aura, is back but intent on some serious conversations... So how can he say no to the beautiful young woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash? She's an artist, she tells him, who's escaped from poverty via marriage to a rich collector who keeps her on a stipend. But she says she fears for her life, and needs Leonid's help. Though Leonid knows better than to believe every word, this isn't a job he can afford to turn away, even as he senses that-if his family's misadventures don't kill him first-sorting out the woman's crooked tale will bring him straight to death's door.
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"You either like Mosley or you don't. Same for his characters. I love Leonid and the assorted cast in his life, just as much as I loved Easy, Etta, Mouse and Paris Minton. So I enjoyed the read and recommend it for its soulful writing and the depth and humanity of its characters. " — Cocowalden (4 out of 5 stars)
"You either like Mosley or you don't. Same for his characters. I love Leonid and the assorted cast in his life, just as much as I loved Easy, Etta, Mouse and Paris Minton. So I enjoyed the read and recommend it for its soulful writing and the depth and humanity of its characters. "
" 3.5 I prefer Easy Rawlins as a series protagonist to LT McGill, though I enjoyed the latter's internal conversations with his (late?) communist father. "
" Mosley's plot is almost too dense, but he makes it work - provided you are willing to work at following it. His major character is also dense, a philosopher maverick, reformed criminal, philandering family man. I liked it. "
" The more Walter Mosley books I read, the better I like the author. "
" This is a good as it gets in terms ob an absorbing story, characters, pace, narrator's musings.(I have only not liked one of Mosley's books, and that MAY be my fault.) "
" Not as good as the others but Walter Mosley still delivers. "
" too far from reality for me in plot and characters. "
Walter Mosley is the New York Times author of more than fifty novels in several series, most notably fourteen Easy Rawlins mysteries, several of which have been made into major motion pictures. In 2020 he was a recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and from the National Book Foundation. In 2013, he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame, and he is the winner of numerous awards, including an Edgar Award, O. Henry Award, the Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award, PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award, a Grammy Award, and and several NAACP Image Awards. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages.
Mirron Willis—actor of film, stage, and television—is the winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration in 2012 and a finalist for the Audie in 2015, as well as the winner of four AudioFile Earphones Awards for his audiobook recordings. He has worked extensively in film and television and on stage with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Houston Shakespeare Festival, and the Ensemble Theatre, among others. He has recorded some 150 audiobooks, including the Smokey Dalton series by Kris Nelscott and My Song by Harry Belafonte. He resides and records audiobooks on his family’s historic ranch in East Texas.
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