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Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
Category: Crime and Thrillers
"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 individual men and women." --Booklist (starred review)NATIONAL BESTSELLERJoe Kin ...Show more
Down the River unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
Category: Fiction
In this "vibrant" Edgar-nominated bestseller (New York Times Book Review), Walter Mosley introduces a hard-boiled new character: King Oliver. Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault by his enemies withi ...Show more
Down the River unto the Sea (King Oliver #1) by Walter Mosley
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Winner of the RBA Prize for Crime Writing Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault, a charge that lands him in the notorious Rikers Island prison. A decade later, King is a private detective, running his ag ...Show more
Every Man a King (King Oliver #2) by Walter Mosley
Category: Crime and Thrillers
A BRAND NEW KING OLIVER NOVEL FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA Joe King Oliver is entangled in a dangerous case when he's asked to investigate whether a white nationalist is being unjustly set up... When friend of the family and multi-billionaire Roger Ferris comes to Joe wit ...Show more
Fear of the Dark by Walter Mosley
Category: Fiction
Fearless Jones and Paris Minton return in a high-velocity thriller about family, betrayal, and revenge. 'I'm in trouble, Paris.' Paris Minton has heard these words before. They mean only one thing: that his neck is on the line too. So when they are uttered by his lowlife cousin Ulysses S. Grant, Paris k ...Show more
Fearless Jones by Walter Mosley
Category: Fiction
Paris Minton is minding his own business - a small used-bookstore of which he is the proud proprietor - when a beautiful woman walks in and asks questions. Before he knows it, Paris has been beaten up, slept with, shot at, robbed, and his bookstore has been burnt to the ground. He
John Woman by Walter Mosley
Category: Fiction
The New York Times bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins novels delivers "a taut, riveting, and artfully edgy saga" of one man's self-transformation (Kirkus). At twelve years old, Cornelius Jones, the son of an Italian-American woman and a black man from Mississippi, secretly takes over his father's ...Show more
Killing Johnny Fry by Walter Mosley
Category: Fiction
When Cordell Carmel catches his long-term girlfriend in the throes of ecstasy with another man - the thick-necked chauvinist Johnny Fry - something profound happens to him. Overnight, the calm life of this middle-aged translator becomes something unrecognizable. As the boundaries of his routine existenc ...Show more
Known to Evil by MOSLEY WALTER
Category: Fiction
Mosley and his new hero return, in a series that's already being hailed as a classic of contemporary noir.A mystery caller sends Leonid McGill to an uptown address 'just to check a girl's OK'. There's no explanation -- just a name, Angelique -- a reward, and the chilling knowledge that he's working for ...Show more
Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery by Walter Mosley
Category: Fiction
A mystery caller sends Leonid McGill to an uptown address 'just to check a girl's OK'. There's no explanation, just a name - Angelique - a reward, and the chilling knowledge that he's working for Rinaldo Alphonse, the most feared man in New York. What LT finds is a crime scene. A girl lies with her face ...Show more
Little Green by Walter Mosley
Category: Fiction
*The next instalment in the Easy Rawlins series - ROSE GOLD - is available from September 2014* We thought we'd seen the last of Easy Rawlins at the end of BLONDE FAITH. But it takes more than an oncoming car to stop LA's finest PI. As Easy wakes from his coma, the last thing he needs is an investigatio ...Show more