Walter Mosley
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"MERGE Raleigh Redman loved Nicci Charbon until she left him heartbroken. Then he hit the lotto for $26 million, quit his minimum wage job and set his sights on one goal: reading the entire collection of lectures in the Popular Educator Library, the only thing his father left behind after he died. As Raleigh is trudging through the eighth volume, he notices something in his apartment that at first seems ordinary but quickly reveals itself to be from...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to display the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories-heroes who are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self-involved,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Easy Rawlins' latest client sends him down a warren of memory and nostalgia, blinding him to reason and risk, from "master of the genre," (Washington Post) Walter Mosley. January 1970 finds Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, LA's premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all expectations.He has a loving family, a beautiful home, and a thriving investigation agency.All is right with the world. and then Amethystine Stoller, his own personal Helen of...
Author
Series
King Oliver novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
When friend of the family and multi-billionaire Roger Ferris comes to Joe with an assignment, he's got no choice but to accept, even if the case is a tough one to stomach. White nationalist Alfred Xavier Quiller has been accused of murder and the sale of sensitive information to the Russians. Ferris has reason to believe Quiller's been set up and he needs King to see if the charges hold. Even with the help of bodyguard and mercenary Oliya Ruez, the...
5) Charcoal Joe
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Easy Rawlins' plans to marry his girlfriend and start a new detective agency are interrupted by the case of a promising Stanford student who has been charged with the race-related murder of a white man.
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Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 6
Language
English
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Description
Detective Leonid McGill is forced to confront the ghost of his felonious past when a nonagenarian Mississippi bluesman is targeted by an infamous assassin while trying to reveal her heritage to his great-granddaughter.
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
Investigating the murder of a client he initially refused to help, Leonid navigates difficult personal elements in his own life while uncovering dark secrets about the victim's old-money family and its missing heiress.
9) Blood grove
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Series
Language
English
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Description
After being approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man, Easy embarks on an investigation that takes him from mountaintops to the desert, through South Central and into sex clubs and the homes of the fabulously wealthy, facing hippies, the mob, and old friends perhaps more dangerous than anyone else.
10) Gone fishin'
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Black Classic Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Author
Series
King Oliver novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
After serving time in Rikers Island solitary for assault, Joe King Oliver, who is an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to investigate.
Author
Series
Publisher
Washington Square Press/Atria
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Easy Rawlins, a tough World War II veteran and detective, is hired by a financier and gangster to locate Daphne Monet, a search that leads him from elegant boardrooms to the raucous jazz joints of late 1940s Los Angeles.
17) Cinnamon kiss
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Facing unprecedented financial troubles when his daughter requires a medical treatment, Easy Rawlins takes a job tracking down a missing attorney and legal assistant, but the assignment proves more complicated than anticipated.
18) The long fall
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Leonid McGill, a New York City private detective, tries to put his past life behind him, to go "from crooked to slightly bent." But it's not that easy when someone like Tony "The Suit" Towers expects you to do a job; when an Albany PI hires you to track down four men known only by their youthful street names; and when your 16-year-old son, Twill, is getting in over his head with a suicidal girl.
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When Zella Grisham is accused of both shooting her boyfriend and stealing more than six million dollars from the Rutgers Assurance Corp., Leonid McGill investigates, while his own family life begins to unravel around him.