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''McGill is an engaging creation, saddled with a faithless wife, an adoring mistress and a son who appears to be planning a murder of his own . . . Mosley ensures the reader hopes to meet [him] again soon'' Sunday TelegraphFrom the creator of Easy Rawlins, Walter Mosley''s electric new novel introduces a brand new investigator - Leonid McGill - and a gripping new set of challenges.We follow former rule-breaker Leonid McGill as he''s buffeted between the overlords of New York''s underbelly, desperate to turn straight, but unable to say no to a nicely paid job. When we''re introduced, he''s calling in old favours and greasing NYPD palms to uncover seemingly harmless information for a high-paying client. But when the former schoolmates on his list are bludgeoned to death one by one, McGill realises that a friendly reunion wasn''t quite what his taskmaster had in mind. And the awkward questions that follow seem almost welcome in comparison to a visit from Willie Sanderson, a trained killer and ''modern-day Frankenstein'', now primed to ensure that McGill breathes his last.THE LONG FALL shows Walter Mosley at the height of his powers, breathing new life into American crime writing with sassy dialogue and unflinching social truths. Vividly capturing a city not nearly as cleaned up as its politicians would have us believe, this is new Mosley - and it''s just as good as the vintage kind.

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 Rinaldo Alphonse, the most feared man in New York. What LT finds is a crime scene. A girl lies with her face blown off, her assassin felled by a knife. But the dead girl isn''t the one LT was sent to find, and her killer''s injuries don''t make sense. The next day Alphonse comes calling: LT must find Angelique before the assassin''s assassin tracks her down. Alphonse isn''t the only one who wants a bit of LT''s time -- the NYPD, finding his appearance too convenient, think they can finally put away the thorn in their side. But why do so many people want a piece of the apparently normal, clean-living Angelique? And why is the mafia coming after McGill, linking his sons -- shy Dmitri and streetwise Twill -- to the escape of a sex-trafficked Belarussian girl? As both plots career towards a thrilling finale, McGill must put his street know-how and book of lethal contacts to the test, while haunted by the reappearance of a face from his crooked past and his wife Katrina''s continued infidelities.

Leonid McGill is back, in the most enthralling and ambitious instalment of Mosley''s latest NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series.

The economy has hit the PI business hard, and Leonid McGill is getting job offers only from the criminals he''s worked so hard to leave behind. 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 poverty via marriage to a rich collector. A rich collector with two ex-wives whose deaths are shrouded in mystery. She says she fears for her life, and needs Leonid''s help.

Though Leonid knows better, this isn''t a job he can afford to turn away. Meanwhile, Leonid''s personal life grows ever more chequered: his favourite stepson, Twill, drops out of school for mysteriously lucrative pursuits; his wife takes a new lover, infuriating the old one and endangering the whole family; and Leonid''s girlfriend, Aura, is back but intent on some serious conversations... Is the client at his door who she seems and - if his family''s misadventures don''t kill him first - will sorting out the woman''s crooked tale bring Leonid straight to death''s door?

An electric new novel starring PI Leonid McGill from the inimitable Walter Mosley, creator of the Easy Rawlins series.Seven years ago Zella Grisham was arrested for illegal possession of a firearm, assault with a deadly weapon, attempted murder and grand theft. After two years of fruitless negotiations Zella was sentenced to 25 years in prison, mainly because she refused to give up her accomplices in a $6.8 million heist from Rutgers Assurance Corp. But Zella had played no part in that heist. PI Leonid McGill had planted the evidence. All Zella had done was shoot her man, her cheating husband Harry Tangelo, when she''d caught him in bed with her best friend. That was a long time ago, and McGill has regrets. So he hires a hotshot attorney to set her free. Zella''s big regret is that she tried to kill Tangelo. McGill agrees to track him down, but the trail leads back to Rutgers Assurance, and the man who paid McGill to plant the evidence is found dead. As Zella is hounded and an attempt is made on McGill''s life, the detective realises the case is more complicated than he had ever imagined - but can he live long enough to sort it out?

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 investigation. But a friend''s son is in trouble and old habits die hard. So Easy wades into the squats, clubs and LSD dens of Sunset Boulevard, trying to find the missing boy, Evander. What he discovers will take him on a journey into the dark underbelly of 1960s culture, where Evander''s disappearance is only one piece of a far larger puzzle... LITTLE GREEN is Mosley''s finest work since DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS - a brilliant novel showing a world-class author reunited with his most beloved protagonist.

When four armed policemen turn up at Easy Rawlins''s door, he thinks he''s in trouble. He is. They want him to find Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a millionaire arms dealer. And Easy can''t afford to say no. The LAPD think she''s with Bob Mantle, a black boxer turned radical. Has she been kidnapped? Is she colluding? When Easy is almost gunned down on his first day on the case, he realises he''ll need more than wits to find Rose Gold.

In this instant bestselling thrilling mystery from Walter Mosley, Detective Easy Rawlins has settled into the happy rhythm of his new life when a dark siren from his past returns and threatens to destroy the peace he's fought for.

The name Easy Rawlins stirs excitement in the hearts of readers and fear in the hearts of his foes. His success has bought him a thriving detective agency, with its first female detective; a remote home, shared with children and pets and lovers, high atop the hills overlooking gritty Los Angeles; and more trouble, more problems, and more threats to those he loves. In other words, he’s still beset on all sides.

Rising in the city's criminal underground is a woman cannier than any card shark or kingpin, a woman feared by all, threatening the businesses of all, whom Easy must quickly locate and neutralize. She goes by the name Lutisha, but Easy will recognize her as the woman who set his entire adult life into motion. Nineteen-seventies Los Angeles is a transient city of delicate, violent balances, and Lutisha has upended that. She also has a secret that will upend Easy's own life, painfully close to home.

"Master of craft and narrative" —National Book Foundation